private void renderTextFrame()
  {

    /* This snippet shows how to create a frame at an arbitrary location and ZOrder within a table.
     * The Parameter IsFollowingTextFlow ensures that the
     table "grows"
     * The XText does not neccessarily have to be from a table.
     * It also shows how to make the frame transparent
     * 
     * */

    XMultiServiceFactory documentFactory = null;
    XText currentXCellText = null;
    Integer x = new Integer( 20 );
    Integer y = new Integer( 20 );

    int width = 50;
    int height = 50;

    Integer ZOrder = new Integer( 1 );

    try
    {
      Object writerShape = documentFactory.createInstance( "com.sun.star.text.TextFrame" );

      XShape xWriterShape = ( XShape ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XShape.class, writerShape );
      xWriterShape.setSize( new Size( width, height ) );

      XTextContent xTextContentShape = ( XTextContent ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XTextContent.class, writerShape );

      // does not support XFastPropertySet
      XPropertySet xTextContentPropertySet = ( XPropertySet ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class,
                                                                                         xTextContentShape );
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "FrameStyleName", "FrameStyle" );
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "FrameIsAutomaticHeight", Boolean.TRUE );
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "ZOrder", ZOrder );
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "IsFollowingTextFlow", Boolean.TRUE );
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "BackColor", new Integer( 0xffffffff ) );
      //$NON-NLS-1$
      xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "BackColorTransparency", new Short( ( short ) 100 ) );
      //$NON-NLS-1$

      XPropertySet xShapeProps = ( XPropertySet ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, writerShape );

      // Setting the vertical position
      xShapeProps.setPropertyValue( "HoriOrientPosition", x );
      xShapeProps.setPropertyValue( "VertOrientPosition", y );

      // get the XText from the shape
      XText xShapeText = ( XText ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XText.class, writerShape );

      currentXCellText.insertTextContent( this.currentXCellCursor, xTextContentShape, false );

      xShapeText.setString( "SOME TEXT " );
    }
    catch ( Exception e )
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }