OT: Trying out Mustang in IntelliJ: using subpixel anti-alias

I've been trying out Java 6 (b44) with IntelliJ 5 (b3424), and am trying to get the famous new subpixel anti-alias feature to work in simple Swing applications.

I'm NOT using an operating system with this feature: I'm using Windows 2000 right now, with "normal" anti-aliasing but obviously not subpixel-antialiasing enabled. In the blog by Chet Haase:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2005/06/phils_font_fixe.html

...it shows how subpixel anti-aliasing is enabled automatically when the O/S (windowing system) has enabled it. Having a look through classes such as:

com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
com.sun.java.swing.SwingUtilities2

...shows how this is applied, but frankly I got lost in the code (which I think is Java-implementation-specific, using Sun-only classes).

Apart from using Graphics2D to take the responsibility for painting the component myself, I can't see how to enable this programmatically for all Swing components (e.g.: JButton, JLabel) for any O/S or any look and feel.

Any ideas from other people out there on the bleeding edge?

- Chris