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To relocate a JButton to a particular position, you can follow these steps:

1. Get the layout manager of the container that contains the JButton. If you are using a JFrame, the default layout manager is BorderLayout. If you have set a different layout manager, you need to use the appropriate methods for that layout manager.

2. Remove the JButton from the container using the remove() method.

3. Create a new instance of the JButton.

4. Set the position of the JButton using the setLocation() method.

5. Add the JButton back to the container using the add() method.

6. Call the repaint() method of the container to refresh the display.

Here is an example code snippet for relocating a JButton to a new position:

Container container = getContentPane();
container.setLayout(null);

JButton button = new JButton("Click Me");
button.setSize(100, 50);
button.setLocation(50, 50);

container.add(button);
container.repaint();

In this example, we set the layout manager to null so that we can manually set the position of the JButton using the setLocation() method. We then create a new instance of the JButton and set its position to (50, 50) using the setLocation() method. Finally, we add the JButton to the container and repaint the container to refresh the display.