It appears that a great start has already been made on standards and drivers using the INDI standard - INDI for Java wiki page at
http://indiforjava.sourceforge.net/w....php/Main_Page
An implementation of an INDI server for LX200 is available at
http://code.google.com/p/indiserver/source/checkout, I'll try and see how easily the Skywatcher command set can be added into that work when I get the time.
There are others trying to get some movement on working out how to add calls into SkyMap/skydroid to make calls to an Indi server to then control a telescope
http://groups.google.com/group/googl...2ee044dde966f#
It does not appear that there is functionality in Skymap to click on a point and identify that point although it may not be all that difficult for those who know what they are doing.
Bob