Hide JInternalFrame from JPanel - java

I'm building a JPanel and it is given to a JInternalFrame. Now I want that if someone clicks on the X button of the JInternalFrame it is hidden, not closed. The Problem is that I have to implement this function in the JPanel and I don't have access to the JInternalFrame.
Is this possible?
I know from the JInternalFrame it can be realized with setDefaultCloseOperation(HIDE_ON_CLOSE); but I don't know how to do it from the JPanel. Of course I searched in SO but I did not found anything that fits for my case.
Another Question, just for understanding: what is happening when you click on the X button? Is the dispose() function called? I'm new to Java Swing and interested how it works.

but I don't know how to do it from the JPanel
You can use the SwingUtilities class to find the parent container.
Something like:
JInternalFrame frame = (JInternalFrame)SwingUtilities.ancestorOfClass(JInternalFrame.class, thePanel);

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I'm new to Java and actually designing the GUI for an application.
My main is a JFrame with 5 buttons and 1 panel which will have the "content", for the first button for example, I've designed a Jframe which has a JTabbedPane.
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![Main Jframe with buttons and Jpanel to show the jframe content][2]
The code is generated by netbeans, and I forgot to mention that I did research on adding a Jframe into another Jframe but here isn't my problem at all.
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In particular, it sounds like a CardLayout would work well for your needs. CardLayouts allow you to swap which panel is displayed in a frame by bringing it to the "front" of a list of panels. This would let you display your JTabbedPane on one button click, then click another to change the content pane.
JFrame can not be added in a JPanel.
use JInternalFrame
Make and hold references to JPanels containing your content. A JFrame is really just that, it's a frame (though you can add a single component to it).
You can't add a JFrame to a JPanel. If you want multiple components to be visible use layouts such as BorderLayout, GridBag, etc. Check out some of the Swing layout tutorials here.
Content should be designed as JPanel (you can design it with drag&drop just like JFrame) but if you really have to put a JFrame to JPanel for some reason, you can do it by
myJPanel.add(myJFrame.getContentPane());
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