What does super.paintComponent(g) do?

Question

What does super.paintComponent(g) do (especially when we place it inside paintComponent() method)? I am surprised I don\'t see anyone asking this in SO before.<

Answer 1

From the Java Painting Tutorial:

Most of the standard Swing components have their look and feel implemented by separate "UI Delegate" objects. The invocation of super.paintComponent(g) passes the graphics context off to the component's UI delegate, which paints the panel's background. For a closer look at this process, see the section entitled "Painting and the UI Delegate" in the aforementioned SDN article.