title: What happened to swing labs or swingx-ws? JXMapKit for Java
body: <p>I am new to java and have been looking at few tutorials around GIS or geogrpahical GUI java applications.</p>
  
  <p>Many of them mention and seem to require swingx-ws or swing labs componet and classes.</p>
  
  <p>I have managed to track down some old versions, but they dont seem to have the desired affect in my Jform application.</p>
  
  <p>Basically when I try and drag and drop after adding the .jar to my libraries folder I get the stop smoking sign (joke) or rejected symbol.</p>
  
  <p>I have also added the components to the palette through palette manager and they appear once selected, but when I attempt to add I am shown a javja no class error.</p>
  
  <p>Alot of the links in the tutorials seem to send me to dead sites and are pretty old.</p>
  
  <p>Basically my question is. Is swingx-ws still an active option for adding mapping functionality to java gui apps? And if not, are there any other alternatives?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/10/30/building-maps-into-swing-app-with-jxmapviewer.html">This is the tutorial I am trying to follow.</a></p>