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Data is everywhere. It is on your computer, on the internet, squirreled away on some corporate server. We have telephone records, class schedules, blogs, personal websites, and our personal favorite websites. There're Flickr, MySpace, and online genealogical tools. This article introduces simple techniques and APIs available in the SwingX-WS project to help you write rich client applications in Java that take advantage of all these data sources for creating Swing mashups, or Smashups.