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Out of the corner of my eye I saw New Splash-Screen Functionality in Mustang, and how you can get a splash image up even BEFORE the JVM is started.

You can set a splash filename via:

java -splash:filename.gif SplashTest

or set it up in a jar manifest:

Manifest-Version: 1.0 Main-Class: SplashTest SplashScreen-Image: filename.gif

And, of course you will often want to do more than just show an image, you may want to overlay a progress bar:

SplashScreen splash = SplashScreen.getSplashScreen(); Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)splash.getGraphics(); Dimension size = splash.getDimension(); g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Clear); g.fillRect(0, 0, size.width, size.height); g.setPaintMode();

I can't wait to see the new splash images show up in Mustang based Java apps of the future :)