<p>I need to create a panel which should be invisible but the components inside it (for example, JTextArea, JButton, etc.) should be visible. When I click on the invisible panel, it should become visible.</p>

<p>I can only use JRE 1.4 and nothing more than that. :(</p>

<p>Any idea how to create such a transparent panel???</p>

```
JComponent.setOpaque(false)
```
is the way to go.