Looking to create compelling and lightweight user interfaces for mobile and embedded Java applications? LWUIT (Lightweight UI Toolkit) is a popular free and open source widget toolkit by Sun Microsystems. LWUIT features a rich set of easy-to-use widgets, supports themes and a pluggable look & feel, animations and transitions, and much more. For your next project: Do it with LWUIT!

Terrence Barr is Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Community Ambassador of the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. He has 15+ years of industry experience and 12 years at Sun. Terrence has been working on various technical aspects of embedded systems and Java ME for a number of years including implementation and optimization of virtual machines, byte code hardware acceleration, and multiprocessor platforms. His blog is at: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/