animation

Hello all, Ive been doing basic java animation involving sveral images and some basic 2dgraphics like Graphics.fillRect() being drawn several times a second. Ive been overriding a JPanels paintComponent() method and Ive been using either a TimerTask or a looping thread to call the JPanels repaint() method several times a second. I find that I cannot get a reasonable framerate and the animation is not very smooth. Ive seen some java programs that get very smooth and fast animation using JFrames. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of any tutorials on this topic or other helpful information.

Thanks

[643 byte] By [pascoe213] at [2007-9-27 14:54:28]