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Microsoft Max was shown off at PDC, letting us see the great effects via Avalon.

Romain Guy is doing killer work with Swing, and just showed off Twinkle, which is a Swing demo using JOGL and Java2D to create a great looking UI.

Check it out to see the seemless effects, and how it isn't rocket science also. You can grab the source. Romain has acknowledged that we don't have a nice tool to build these yet... but we will get there.