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Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.
When a component asks
for its UI, this look and feel returns a 
multiplexing UI that handles all communications with both the 
default look and feel and one or more auxiliary look and feels. 
For example, if
a user combines an auxiliary audio look and feel 
with the Motif look and feel,
the <code>JButton.getUI</code> method
would return an instance of <code>MultiButtonUI</code>,
which would handle both a
<code>MotifButtonUI</code> and an <code>AudioButtonUI</code>. 
   
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For more information, see
<a href="doc-files/multi_tsc.html" target="_top">Using
the Multiplexing Look and Feel.</a>

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<strong>Note:</strong>
Most of the Swing API is <em>not</em> thread safe.
For details, see
<a
href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/overview/threads.html"
target="_top">Threads and Swing</a>,
a section in
<em><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/"
target="_top">The Java Tutorial</a></em>.

@since 1.2
@serial exclude

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