After solving my flicker issue, I wonder if there is a better closable Tabbed Pane, then the one that pops up on top by googling for closabletappedpane? (you recognize it by its processMouseEvents Method)
I especially need one, that never flickers :-)
Please post your experience, links with your own closable Tabbed Panes here.
There is a sample implementation of closable tabs using JTabbedPane in the JDK.
I really recommend to follow tutorial mentioned above. It is simple to create such a tab and you have full control over its behavior.
JideTabbedPane is pretty awesome and it's in the common layer (which is open source). It supports all sorts of sweet features to make Java apps not seem so crusty. We've had great success with it on my project.