Sod that then (see 17/03/2004). I was actually going for the whole 'desktop management' thing, with the task bar, and the window manager, and the desktop, and the inter-application communication, and the web of Nyyyyyyloooooon.
Shouldn't have bothered. Most of this sort of functionality is already in Swing. JDesktopPane, anyone?
There was me wondering why no-one had thought of this before. And the cry was "OMG! ROTFLMAO! RTFAPI, Newbie scum!" Ah well. Some day I'll come up with a decent project. Cessation of respiration in anticipation of said event is (of course) ill advised.