here is a snippet of my code:
pane.setLayout(new BoxLayout(pane, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
JPanel a = new JPanel();
a.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
a.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100));
a.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("aa"));
JPanel b = new JPanel();
b.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
b.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(50, 50));
b.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("bb"));
pane.add(a);
pane.add(b);
the problem is the width of the second panel, as you can see in the image:
How to fix it?
because in the stream layout it looks like I want:

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