Swing is an IRC channel located at FreeNode.Net. Here we discuss Java GUI toolkits , JDIC , best practices etc.
SwingBot is....a bot , who is there to assist us by providing helpful links and facts. You can get an overview of how to work SwingBot by asking for "~help" or "SwingBot help". SwingBot logs the channel conversations. You can always find the last 1000 lines of conversation here. SwingBot is written and maintained by Jason Davis. SwingBot's Plugins are written by many people ask Swingbot ~author pluginname. Here is a link to the source code and information about writing plugins.
Here are a few links that might be helpful.
XChat IRC Client for all operating systems Mirc IRC client for Windows IRSSI ncurses IRC client for all operating systems Swing Tutorials LAFs