Galera, aqui vao alguns links interessantes que achei largados pela net afora, sobre Swing e SWT.
Patterns in Java AWT
http://mordor.cs.hut.fi/tik-76.278/group6/awtpat.html
AWT/Swing section of JavaWorld
http://www.javaworld.com/channel_content/jw-awt-index.shtml
Threads and Swing
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads1.html
JavaTM Look and Feel Design Guidelines
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/HIGTitle.html
JavaTM Look and Feel Design Guidelines: Advanced Topics
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/at/book/Titlepage.html
Swing Connections
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/index.html
Swing Articles Index
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/
JFC FAQ
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/faq.html
Another JFC/SwingFAQ
http://www.mindspring.com/~scdrye/java/faq.html
JFC Documentation
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/docs.html
Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/
Swing Sightings
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/
Swing by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev
http://manning.spindoczine.com/sbe/
Project Swing Documentation
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/swing/index.html