How to access google maps api in Java Application?

Question

How do you access google maps API from a Java application?

Answer 1

You can use Swing-WS, a component JXMapViewer is available and provides similar functionality as JavaScript version. However it is still not legal to access Google tile servers outside the provided APIs : JavaScript and Flash.

There is an issue opened to track this request : http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1396. It is approved but who knows when it's gonna be available.