Is there any [un]official info about SwingX-WS 1.1 and its development status?

Question

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.

Dire

Pleas provide link(s) to what you've been following. – Swedenborgian

Sure! I'll add links tomorrow (I can't now because I'm on my smartphone and cannot copy&paste) – Dire

Re maps, see also this Q&A. – Swedenborgian

See also stackoverflow.com/questions/6818528 – Aten

Answer 1

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

-EDIT bis-

See this question for an update.

Dire

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? – Tayib

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. – Dire

Cool! Feel invited to pass me a note if you are ready or run into problems :-) And/or comment the swingx issue you created. – Tayib

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? – Dire

when it comes to ws, my knowledge is ... limited more than yours :-) Don't know. – Tayib

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. – Tayib

@Tayib you are the greatest! – Dire