To display text messages (as - for example - in a window with
 log messages) in a scrolling text area, there are several
 Swing components I am aware of:
http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextArea.html

I have a need to have a classpath that is determined by the set of jars a
user places into a directory.
By way of example, placing jar's into certain directories in a tomcat web
server will cause tomcat to include them into the web applications class

I am trying to display unicode text in a JLabel, unfortunately the
snippet code right below will fail ... (the JLabel displays it as
ISO-8859-1).
new JLabel(new String("ééééé".getBytes("UTF-8")))

I wrote a simple Swing program. When the click a button and select a jpg file, I want to show this picture in the JScollPanel, but it doesn't appear. The source is here:
private void jButton3ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                        
...