IntelliJ style tabs

Swing JTabbedPane's LEFT and RIGHT tab placements are rarely used. They waste screen space by placing tab titles left to right (see below left image).

I recently came across infonode's toolbar library. It has features to have tabbed titles drawn bottomup or topdown along with many other cool features. Using infonode I created a tabbed panel like the one in IntelliJ Idea (see right image).




Infonode has some cool features but is costly, they should have offered a reasonable site wide licensing price.