Is The Java Tutorials Translucent Window example giving trouble to those playing with jdk7?

Question

Here\'s the example.

If you build and run TranslucentWindow in let\'s say, NetBeans IDE 7.0, which supports jdk7, you\'ll get the following exception:<

Answer 1

Use com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities.setWindowOpacity(w, 0.5f) in JDK 7.

See here.