Creating Animations with Java: Tips for Novice Programmers

[scumbum22]

I am a novice programmer and I need to create an Animation using Java. Basically, this animation needs to consist of moving ellipses on a graph. Does anyone have suggestions as to the easiest way to go about doing this? I've been looking into using java.awt and javax.swing to draw the graphics in a JPanel and hopefully move them. It doesn't seem to be working out well.

I've read about Applets and I understand that they are used along with a web browser. On the system I'm working on I have no access to the web.

Please, any suggestions would be very helpful!

 

[Filip Larsen]

Perhaps you can use Java FX?

http://download.oracle.com/javafx/
http://download.oracle.com/javafx/2.0/animations/jfxpub-animations.htm