From a quick browser of the source of java.awt.Container. PaintComponents it seems like it (indirectly) calls paint (after some other processing) on it's child components, and the only reason you'd override it is if you want to do something funky with it. Generally unless you really know what you're doing you probably shouldn't override it and instead should just override paintComponent on the appropriate control.
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