Change JtabbedPane orentation

I'm reading a new simple interested question in Stackoverflow: How to make Java tabbed panes display tabs from right to left?

Then i'm refering from "How to Use Tabbed Panes" to create a new project based by JTabbedPane component.

It's enough to use "setComponentOrientation" method to change orentation of JTabbedPane.

	package com.tommyalf.java.tabbedpane;
	import javax.swing.*;
	import java.awt.*;
	import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
	/**
	* Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
	* User: tommyalf
	* Date: 27-nov-2010
	* Time: 12.38.22
	* To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
	*/
	public class TabbedPane extends JPanel {
	public TabbedPane() {
	super(new GridLayout(1, 1));
	JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
	ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("images/middle.gif");
	JComponent panel1 = makeTextPanel("Panel #1");
	tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 1", icon, panel1,
	"Does nothing");
	tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(0, KeyEvent.VK_1);
	JComponent panel2 = makeTextPanel("Panel #2");
	tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 2", icon, panel2,
	"Does twice as much nothing");
	tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(1, KeyEvent.VK_2);
	JComponent panel3 = makeTextPanel("Panel #3");
	tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 3", icon, panel3,
	"Still does nothing");
	tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(2, KeyEvent.VK_3);
	JComponent panel4 = makeTextPanel(
	"Panel #4 (has a preferred size of 410 x 50).");
	panel4.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(410, 50));
	tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 4", icon, panel4,
	"Does nothing at all");
	tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(3, KeyEvent.VK_4);
	tabbedPane.setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT); // Change Orentation
	//Add the tabbed pane to this panel.
	add(tabbedPane);
	//The following line enables to use scrolling tabs.
	tabbedPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);
	}
	protected JComponent makeTextPanel(String text) {
	JPanel panel = new JPanel(false);
	JLabel filler = new JLabel(text);
	filler.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
	panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
	panel.add(filler);
	return panel;
	}
	/** Returns an ImageIcon, or null if the path was invalid. */
	protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path) {
	java.net.URL imgURL = TabbedPane.class.getResource(path);
	if (imgURL != null) {
	return new ImageIcon(imgURL);
	} else {
	System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
	return null;
	}
	}
	/**
	* Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety,
	* this method should be invoked from
	* the event dispatch thread.
	*/
	private static void createAndShowGUI() {
	//Create and set up the window.
	JFrame frame = new JFrame("TabbedPaneDemo");
	frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
	//Add content to the window.
	frame.add(new TabbedPane(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
	//Display the window.
	frame.pack();
	frame.setVisible(true);
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	//Schedule a job for the event dispatch thread:
	//creating and showing this application's GUI.
	SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
	public void run() {
	//Turn off metal's use of bold fonts
	UIManager.put("swing.boldMetal", Boolean.FALSE);
	createAndShowGUI();
	}
	});
	}
	}

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