I'm taking a look at Decal. On a cursory glance, it does look very nice.

Oh, I've got MSXML to work (Cheers, claps, whoops). For some reason, you need to import version 2 (2.6 and 3.0 don't work). Hehehehehe, I just might ditch Java after all, seeing as I haven't really coded much yet. Being an MS component, there's tonnes of information on it at MSDN.