Remove swingx dependency

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. try to incorporate xswingx into your own program

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
while xswingx itself is very nice and well designed it strongly suffers
from its dependency to swingx. Swingx is not maintained anymore, with all
the bad effects: no current builds, builds itself inconsistent (e.g.
containing unresolved symbols), etc. It is even admitted by SUN in the
forums that swingx is dead:
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=313969
So please: offer xswingx as standalone lib without the dependency to
swingx. It would be a pitty if xswingx would suffer from a dead swingx.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest as of today

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.na...@gmx.de on 10 Nov 2008 at 9:36

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swingx is not discontinued, the only change is that the person Sun paid to work 
full 
time on it, is no more. There are many volunteers that still work on it

Original comment by thraw...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2009 at 6:28

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it doesn't help to repeatedly deny this.
Face it: swingx IS dead. 
Simply try to use it:
- the java.net project page at https://swingx.dev.java.net/ is unmaintained
- the referred domain http://swinglabs.org/ does not exist anymore
- the section Documents & files doesn't contain anything
- instead there is only "automated builds" with a whole bunch of different
undocumented builds
- even the "Release build" contains unresolved symbols
- etc.
I simply call this dead...

And to repeat myself: It would be a pity if xswingx would suffer from a dead 
swingx.

Original comment by hans.na...@gmx.de on 19 Mar 2009 at 9:17

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the domain swinglabs exists
The section Document & files does contains releases
In fact, release 1.0 has just been released
1.0 compiles and works fine here

Original comment by thraw...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2009 at 1:16

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swingx is alive again: they released 1.0 ealier this year and recently 1.6

Original comment by ge0ffrey.spam@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2009 at 3:29