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Jon has a nice tutorial on creating custom UI delegates for JTabbedPanes.

Creating a custom UI delegate for JTabbedPane
In my opinion one of the most underappreciated (and perhaps underused) features of Swing is the ability to create custom UI delegates for existing controls. It seems to me that most of the time new delegates are only created as part of developing a new complete look and feel, however I think they could be better leveraged to help add polish to existing applications...I thought a good (and simple) example of how to implement a custom UI delegate would be to create an implementation for JTabbedPane that makes it look like the tabs used in the palletes of Adobe Photoshop...