Generating Animated GIF in java is it possible

Hi,
I have worked on generating GIF / JPG Files in java. Now that i would like to know if its possible to create animated GIF in java. I have'nt got any examples on that. If anyone has any, can you pl post them here?

This is an animated gif encoder : http://jmge.net/java/gifenc/
Animated GIF Example :
import net.jmge.gif.Gif89Encoder;
void writeAnimatedGIF(Image[] still_images,
String annotation,
boolean looped,
double frames_per_second,
OutputStream out) throws IOException
Gif89Encoder gifenc = new Gif89Encoder();
for (int i = 0; i < still_images.length; )
gifenc.addFrame(still_images);
gifenc.setComments(annotation);
gifenc.setLoopCount(looped ? 0 : 1);
gifenc.setUniformDelay((int) Math.round(100 / frames_per_second));
gifenc.encode(out);

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