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BorderLayout

Here is a small demonstration showing how the BorderLayout places components added with the region constraints.

import javax.swing.*;

public class BorDemo extends JFrame{
    JButton n = new JButton("North");
    JButton e = new JButton("East");
    JButton s = new JButton("South");
    JButton w = new JButton("West");
    JButton c = new JButton("Centre");

    public static void main(String argv[]){
	BorDemo b = new BorDemo();
    }
    BorDemo(){
	getContentPane().add(n,"North");
	getContentPane().add(e,"East");
	getContentPane().add(s,"South");
	getContentPane().add(w,"West");
	getContentPane().add(c,"Center");
	setVisible(true);
	setSize(300,300);
    }

}

Note how the add method is overloaded to take a region constraint.

This is how the program displays itself.