This free Java clock is easy to configure, you can use your own images, etc, and it adds some flash to an otherwise drab Web page. The free fontSelect applet is for use within your applets and applications, and allows users to choose the best text display. This applet produces animating buttons for navigation or decoration. A mouse-sensitive trail effect is a slick characteristic of this applet. The original analogue clock applet from Sun Microsystems.
Source is included.
This is a free upscroller applet with a 3D starfield in the background. You can alter the parameters to customize the applet. Well here is the perfect way to get started. The Gamelet Toolkit is a powerful, robust, scalable, and free object oriented framework of classes and interfaces used for developing arcade style video games and entertainment applets. This free Three dimensional text applet is configurable to show multiline strings using various rotation options.