The J2SE 1.4.2 spec states for setDefaultFocusTraversalPolicy(FocusTraversalPolicy):

"Sets the default FocusTraversalPolicy. Top-level components use this value on their creation to initialize their own focus traversal policy by explicit call to Container.setFocusTraversalPolicy. Note: this call doesn't affect already created components as they have their policy initialized. Only new components will use this policy as their default policy."

However, the implementation does not follow the spec. The policy changes
for already created and initialized components.

The following code sample demonstrates the problem:
------------------ TestFTP1.java ------------------
import java.awt.*;

public class TestFTP1 {

    KeyboardFocusManager currentKFM =
            KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager();

    ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy newFTP =
                   new ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy();

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TestFTP1().test();
    }

    private void test() {
        Panel panel1 = new Panel();
        System.out.println(panel1.getFocusTraversalPolicy());
        panel1.setFocusCycleRoot(true);
        System.out.println(panel1.getFocusTraversalPolicy());

        currentKFM.setDefaultFocusTraversalPolicy(newFTP);
        
        System.out.println(panel1.getFocusTraversalPolicy());
    }
}
-----------------------------------------------------
---------------------- Output -----------------------
null
java.awt.DefaultFocusTraversalPolicy@fe1fbf
java.awt.ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy@d66030

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