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Swing: Enabling Menu Drop-Shadows With JGoodies
While the platform look and feels are getting more and more faithful in recent releases of Java Swing (e.g. Java 5), there are still a few odds and ends that just don't look quite right. One of those things that is often noticable in Windows is the lack of drop shadow on the various menus (menu-bar and popup menu). Here is a snapshot of Eclipse (using SWT) flaunting native drop-down shadows...

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