How to draw a directed arrow line in Java?

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Although Pete’s post is awesomely comprehensive, I’m using this method to draw a very simple line with a little triangle at its end.

// create an AffineTransform 
// and a triangle centered on (0,0) and pointing downward
// somewhere outside Swing's paint loop
AffineTransform tx = new AffineTransform();
Line2D.Double line = new Line2D.Double(0,0,100,100);

Polygon arrowHead = new Polygon();  
arrowHead.addPoint( 0,5);
arrowHead.addPoint( -5, -5);
arrowHead.addPoint( 5,-5);

// [...]
private void drawArrowHead(Graphics2D g2d) {  
    tx.setToIdentity();
    double angle = Math.atan2(line.y2-line.y1, line.x2-line.x1);
    tx.translate(line.x2, line.y2);
    tx.rotate((angle-Math.PI/2d));  

    Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D) g2d.create();
    g.setTransform(tx);   
    g.fill(arrowHead);
    g.dispose();
}

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