awtutilities

I am using the AWTUtilities class in my application to create custom window shapes. As far as I know, there is no other way to do it. It is a requirement. The javadoc generation gives me this error: warning: com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities is Sun proprietary API and may be removed in a future release What exactly does this mean? I can use it, but it may stop working with any release? Why put it in, then? More importantly, and the real question here, if Sun takes it out, will they likely replace it with another way to do the same thing? Is that what the warning is for? I suppose I could just check for

I recently read the blog posts on Pushing Pixels that describe how to achieve native transparency and translucency with pure Java. The needed classes reside on com.sun.awt namely com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities. I was wondering how i could include the needed classes (not just this one) into my distro since the classes are available only when you have a jdk installed and you start the jvm through there. So the users of my program will not have the needed classes to run my program. Any ideas? Vineet Reynolds AWTUtilities, as the package implies is an implementation package and is subject to change. I