Swing Overlapping components

Question

I have two AWT components in a Frame, Panel A and Panel B. I would like panel A to be sized to the height width of the frame (and maintain that size on frame resize), but I

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something. If B is fixed size and is at (0,0) and A runs the full width what's the use of having B overlap A? You will never see anything that is placed under B.

I can't think of any of the default layout managers, but Orielly has this one you can use: relative layout manager (see source code link) with documentation. I haven't used it in a long while, but it should beat managing the layout yourself.