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Building Swing comes in handy occasionally specifically if you want to throw in debug information for performance tuning.

Building Swing without building the whole JDK using ANT.
Those of you who are dying to fix your favorite Swing bug, might have been a bit put off by the complexity of the full JDK build. For those people who just want to build swing and be able to play around with Swing code changes, you might consider using the following ant file to build just swing. This way, you dont need the native compilers or any tool other than ant and the binary and source snapshots.