Drag and drop (D&D) is an intuitive GUI gesture used for
transferring data from one GUI component to another. This second
article in the drag and drop series explores how you can transfer
data besides text and discusses the issues involved with developing
a library of D&D-enabled project Swing components. (4,400
words)
In this article, an excerpt from <em>iText in Action</em> (Manning Publications, December 2006), author Bruno Lowagie shows how easy it is to export any Swing component to PDF using iText's PdfGraphics2D object.