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I've been keeping an eye for almost a year on swingx-ws (on SwingX website, via Google and whatnot [1,2, etc.]), to see if version 1.1 eventually made it to become a released milestone (I'm using v1.0 but there are some JXMapViewer bugs that, according to JIRA, are being addressed in v1.1).

Am I looking in the wrong places? Is development still active?

(If you can suggest a nice alternative library for dealing with online maps in Swing that you particularly like, please do)

EDIT: see this question for an update.

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Now that SwingX 1.6.4 is out, SwingX-WS support has been dropped altogether! Boo ...:(

What a pity... such a nice and useful tool abandoned. I'll end up embedding browser-based maps into desktop applications.

-EDIT-

JXMapViewer has been resurrected here: https://github.com/msteiger/jxmapviewer2

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See this question for an update.

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    hmm.. not really (are we impatient, aren't we ;-) - it wasn't officially supported for a long while. Simply grab the current sources, update to swingX 1.6.4 - and contribute back. Will be happy to commit in your name :-) Or maybe you want to maintain it, would be great? – kleopatra Sep 20 '12 at 08:28
  • Quite impatient indeed! :) I will do what you suggest and play around with the sources, within the limits of my current Swing knowledge. If I succeed in my tinkering, well, I might propose to maintain it. – Unai Vivi Sep 20 '12 at 08:35
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    Cool! Feel invited to pass me a note if you are ready or run into problems :-) And/or comment the [swingx issue](http://java.net/jira/browse/SWINGX-1524) you created. – kleopatra Sep 20 '12 at 08:38
  • One quick question @kleopatra: could you suggest me some reading material (if there's any) to better understand the differences (and the different domains of use) between JMapViewer and JXMapViewer? As far as I know, the second is based upon the former, it uses SwingX components, and it eases integration by providing wheels you don't need to reinvent yourself, am I right? – Unai Vivi Sep 20 '12 at 08:38
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    when it comes to ws, my knowledge is ... limited more than yours :-) Don't know. – kleopatra Sep 20 '12 at 08:41
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    good to know :-) BTW, updated swingx-ws recently to be in synch with current swingx (1.6.5-1), just forgot about this thread, sorry .... you can check-out the code from svn and compile locally. – kleopatra Mar 28 '13 at 09:36
  • @kleopatra you are the greatest! – Unai Vivi Mar 28 '13 at 10:47