With JTray, tray icons can have Tool Tip Text which appear during a mouse-over. Icons can be animated, as shown in the screenshot to the left. Several image formats can be used to add an icon: gif, ico, jpg, png, and java.awt.Image objects.

JTray can display Java AWT and Swing Components as pop-ups. This allows developers to modify the look and feel and add powerful menu items. Click on the left image to toggle the Metal / Windows look and feel.

Only a few lines of code are needed to add JTray to your Java programs.

// image1 is a java.awt.Image
JTrayIcon jTrayIcon = new JTrayIcon(image1);
// jPopupMenu is a javax.swing.JPopupMenu
jTrayIcon.setRightClickTarget(jPopupMenu);
jTrayIcon.show();