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Eric Burke of OCI has a nice introduction to JDIC Tray Icons in this month's Java News Brief.

JDIC Tray Icons
The JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) project lets portable JavaTM applications access native desktop features. JDIC is a Sun-sponsored open source project currently at release 0.9. When complete, portions of JDIC may eventually become part of J2SE. This article examines the Tray Icon portion of JDIC version 0.9, which lets you create "tray icons" on the native desktop with just a few lines of code.

Our example is a dummy weather forecast service that shows current weather conditions as an animated GIF on the system tray. Balloon help alerts you when a new forecast is available and you can click the icon to view a detailed forecast in a Swing JFrame...