Make a custom cursor appear when the user moves the mouse over some text in a Java Swing JDialog

At first set the label on which you want the custom cursor to be visible on hover:

JLabel label = new JLabel("Demo text! Hand cursor is visible on hover...");

Now, set cursor to be visible as Hand Cursor instead of the default Cursor:

label.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));

The following is an example to make a custom cursor appear when the user moves the mouse over some text:

Example

import java.awt.Cursor;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class SwingDemo extends JFrame {
   private void ShowDialog() {
      JLabel label = new JLabel("Demo text! Hand cursor is visible on hover...");
      label.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
      JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(label);
      pane.setOptions(new Object[] { "Close" });
      JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(this, "Info");
      dialog.setVisible(true);
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SwingDemo demo = new SwingDemo();
      demo.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      demo.setSize(600, 450);
      demo.setVisible(true);
      demo.ShowDialog();
   }
}

The output is as follows. When you will keep cursor under the Dialog text “Demo text! Hand cursor is visible on hover...”, then the cursor will convert to Hand Cursor:

Output