The Incrementalist

An inspired bit of hackery by Dmitry Markman led to a flurry of collaborative development on Apple’s java-dev mailing list, and the result is a handy AnimatingCardLayout class that provides a variety of animated transitions between two Swing panels. It’s not nearly as smooth as the OS X effects that inspired it, but it may be as good as it gets without more direct access to graphics hardware from Java. Visit Dmitry’s site to see demo applets and get the source.

[Update] The project now has a permanent home at java.net.