How to add an image to a JPanel?

Question

I have a JPanel to which I\'d like to add JPEG and PNG images that I generate on the fly.

All the examples I\'ve seen so far in the Swing Tutorials, specially in the

Answer 1

This answer is a complement to @shawalli's answer...

I wanted to reference an image within my jar too, but instead of having a BufferedImage, I simple did this:

 JPanel jPanel = new JPanel();      
 jPanel.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("resource/images/polygon.jpg"))));

Answer 2

You can avoid using own Components and SwingX library and ImageIO class:

File f = new File("hello.jpg");
JLabel imgLabel = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(file.getName()));