This project will include some wrappers and facades for the Java Swing API with a focus on making casual game development easier for amateur programmers.
Future episodes of the Build Something Awesome livecast will demonstrate how to use this library. Episodes are archived at http://buildsomethingawesome.org/archive.html
To include Awesome Lib in your project, make a Maven project and include this dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.buildsomethingawesome.lib</groupId>
<artifactId>awesome-java-swing</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>