Carrot-kitfox-svg is a project mainly written in JAVA and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
mavenize pivot build
this allows you to get current trunk of http://svgsalamander.java.net/
in form of a maven snapshot
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>sonatype-oss-snapshots</id>
<name>Sonatype OSS Snapshots</name>
<url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.carrotgarden</groupId>
<artifactId>kitfox-svg-core</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>