# Package javax.swing.border

package javax.swing.border
Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component. You can subclass these classes to create customized borders for your components instead of using the default borders provided by the look-and-feel being used.

Note: Most of the Swing API is not thread safe. For details, see Concurrency in Swing, a section in The Java Tutorial.

## Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

- How to Use Borders, a section in The Java Tutorial

Since:
  1.2

Related Packages
Package
Description
javax.swing
Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.
Class
Description
AbstractBorder
A class that implements an empty border with no size.
BevelBorder
A class which implements a simple two-line bevel border.
Border
Interface describing an object capable of rendering a border around the edges of a swing component.
CompoundBorder
A composite Border class used to compose two Border objects into a single border by nesting an inside Border object within the insets of an outside Border object.
EmptyBorder
A class which provides an empty, transparent border which takes up space but does no drawing.
EtchedBorder
A class which implements a simple etched border which can either be etched-in or etched-out.
LineBorder
A class which implements a line border of arbitrary thickness and of a single color.
MatteBorder
A class which provides a matte-like border of either a solid color or a tiled icon.
SoftBevelBorder
A class which implements a raised or lowered bevel with softened corners.
StrokeBorder
A class which implements a border of an arbitrary stroke.
TitledBorder
A class which implements an arbitrary border with the addition of a String title in a specified position and justification.