java panel 背景透明,如何设置JPanel的透明背景

I need to know if a JPanel`s bacground can be set to Transparent?

My frame is has two Jpanels

Image Panel and Feature Panel, Feature Panel is overlapping Image Panel, the Image Panel is working as a background and it is loading image from a remote Url, now I want to draw shaps on Feature Panel , but now Image Panel cannot be seen due to Feature Panel's background color. I need to make Feature Panel background transparent while still drawing its shapes and i want Image Panel to be visible since it is doing tiling and cache function of images. I need to seperate the image drawing and shape drawing thats why I`m using two jPanels! is there anyway the overlapping Jpanel have a transparent background?

thanks

解决方案

Alternatively, consider The Glass Pane, discussed in the article How to Use Root Panes. You could draw your "Feature" content in the glass pane's paintComponent() method.

Addendum: Working with the GlassPaneDemo, I added an image:

/* Set up the content pane, where the "main GUI" lives. */

frame.add(changeButton, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

frame.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon("img.jpg")), BorderLayout.CENTER);

and altered the glass pane's paintComponent() method:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {

if (point != null) {

Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

g2d.setRenderingHint(

RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(

AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, 0.3f));

g2d.setColor(Color.yellow);

g2d.fillOval(point.x, point.y, 120, 60);

}

}