Sorry - I just realized I made a mistake and didn't use the correct terminology in my question.
What I meant to ask was, is it possible to have a resizable panel that is only locked to one corner, as opposed to the entire side.
For example,
as opposed to
(in the first image, the console is "floating" above the text and is not part of the sidebars, and in the second it is locked to the side.)
Is this possible using Swing components?
(I'm not sure if these solutions would be viable, but I've considered an invisible JDesktopPane and a JInternalFrame to do the job, and a JTextArea in a higher layer on which I could call setBounds(), which I know isn't recommended.)
TIA