paintComponent(Graphics) has protected access in JComponent

[Berkley, Cameron]

Hello everyone,
I was following the example on the SVG Generator page 
(http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/using/svg-generator.html), but I am 
running into trouble with the MySVGGenerator class. My IDE (Netbeans 7.3) warns 
me that I cannot call "myCanvas.paintComponent(svgGenerator)", because 
"paintComponent(Graphics) has protected access in JComponent". Could anyone 
help me understand why I'm getting this error? For the record, I'm using Java 6 
and Batik 1.7, and I have made certain that the library has been added to my 
project properly.

-CJB

Here is my code in full for "MySVGGenerator.java":

package testsvggen;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.Writer;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import org.apache.batik.dom.GenericDOMImplementation;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGeneratorContext;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGraphics2D;
import org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGraphics2DIOException;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

class MySVGGenerator {

    static String svgNS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";;

    public static void generateSVG(JPanel myCanvas, OutputStream outStream) 
throws UnsupportedEncodingException, SVGGraphics2DIOException {
        DOMImplementation domImpl = 
GenericDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
        Document myFactory = domImpl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null);
        SVGGeneratorContext ctx = SVGGeneratorContext.createDefault(myFactory);
        ctx.setComment("Testing 123");
        SVGGraphics2D svgGenerator = new SVGGraphics2D(ctx, false);

        // Create the SVG DOM tree.
        myCanvas.paintComponent(svgGenerator);

        Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(outStream, "UTF-8");
        svgGenerator.stream(out, true);
    }
}