Sun's LWUIT set to boost Java ME user interfaces

USA : After the announcement of new tools for Java ME developers at the JavaOne conference held this year in May, they have released a new tool library for developing Java ME user interfaces. This Lightweight UI Toolkit or LWUIT is a free UI library and tool for creating richer and more portable Java ME user interfaces.

Writing appealing cross device applications today in Java ME is challenging. Due to implementation differences in fonts, layout, menus, etc. the same application may look and behave very differently on different devices. In addition much of the advanced UI functionality is not accessible in LCDUI and requires the developer to write very low level "paint" type code. The Lightweight UI Toolkit was developed to address these issues.

The Lightweight UI Toolkit makes it very easy to create compelling UI's that will look and behave the same on all devices using a programming paradigm similar to Swing. This Toolkit is able to run on CLDC1.1 MIDP2.0/CDC PBP/SE.

Key Features

• Swing Like MVC
• Layouts
• PLAF & Themes
• Fonts
• Touch Screen
• Animations & Transitions
• Rich widgets
• 3D Integration
• Painters
• Modal Dialogs
• External Tools

To read more about the project click here...