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Netbeans should allow the user of Component.setComponentZOrder to set the z-order of components, allowing us to migrate away from JLayeredPane. It seems to be impossible to use JLayeredPane properly with layout managers. I am guessing that setComponentZOrder() works better.
Related to bug 73463.