Another newb scratching for any help he can get

I'm in a robotics class here at Lawrence Tech. University. The class is based around laptop robots running java. I thaught it would be great if I could drive my robot like a remote control car via my playstation controller (with usb adapter). The goal is to eventually control the robot across campus (LTU is a wireless campus) from my desk.

While trying to understand Jinput, I found the tutorial at https://freefodder.dev.java.net/tutorial/jinputTutorialOne.html

It's a great tutorial, but the examples seem to be broken. Running in Eclipse 3.1.1 and on the command line with ant result in the same error for the ControllerDetails example.

"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: net.java.games.input.Controller.getAxes()[Lnet/java/games/input/Axis;
at net.java.games.input.tutorialone.ControllerDetails.printControllerDetails(ControllerDetails.java:74)
at net.java.games.input.tutorialone.ControllerDetails.main(ControllerDetails.java:46)
"

I understand that the tutorial is out of date and may have been broken with new versions of Jinput. What I need is a solution for the example.

-Swift-

Here is the code for the example:

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package net.java.games.input.tutorialone;

import net.java.games.input.Axis;
import net.java.games.input.Controller;
import net.java.games.input.ControllerEnvironment;

/** A simple application that shows detailed information
 * about one of the controllers.
 *  
 * @author Robert Schuster
 */
public class ControllerDetails {

   /** Shows details about the controller represented 
    * by an index number. Use ListControllers to find
    * out which index belongs to which controller.
    * 
    * @param args
    */
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      if (args.length < 1) {
         printUsage();
      } else {
         // treat first argument as a number
         try {
            //int index = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
            int index = 2;
            /* access the default controller environment
             * which contains all identified controllers
             */
            ControllerEnvironment ce =
               ControllerEnvironment.getDefaultEnvironment();

            // retrieve the available controllers
            Controller[] controllers = ce.getControllers();

            // fail if the number argument is not a valid index for the Controller array
            if (index < 0 || index >= controllers.length) {
               System.out.println(
                  "The provided index is out of range.\nUse a value between 0 and "
                     + (controllers.length - 1));
               return;
            }

            // hand control over to a method printing the details for this controller
            printControllerDetails(controllers[index]);
            
         } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
            printUsage();
         }
      }
   }

   private static void printUsage() {
      // show a hint if the parameter format was not correct
      System.out.println("Start application with an index as an argument");
      System.out.println(
         "denoting the controller you want detailed information");
      System.out.println("from.");
   }

   /** Prints an input controller's details to the console. The
    * method is called recursively for each subcontroller.
    * 
    * @param c
    */
   private static void printControllerDetails(Controller c) {
      // shows basic information about this controller
      System.out.println("name: " + c.getName());
      System.out.println("type: " + c.getType());
      System.out.println("port: " + c.getPortType());

      // shows information about each Axis instance of this controller
      printAxesDetails(c.getAxes());
      
      // shows details about this controller's subcontroller      
      Controller[] subControllers = c.getControllers();
      if (subControllers.length > 0) {
         for (int i = 0; i < subControllers.length; i++) {
            System.out.println("subcontroller: " + i);
            printControllerDetails(subControllers[i]);
         }
      }
   }

   /** Prints detailed information about each Axis instance in the given
    * array.
    * 
    * @param axes
    */
   private static void printAxesDetails(Axis[] axes) {
      if (axes.length > 0) {
         System.out.println("axes:");

         // iterate through all axes and print their information
         for (int i = 0; i < axes.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(
               i
                  + " - "
                  + axes[i].getName()
                  + " - "
                  + axes[i].getIdentifier()
                  + " - "
                  + (axes[i].isRelative() ? "relative" : "absolute")
                  + " - "
                  + (axes[i].isNormalized() ? "normalized" : "arbitrary")
                  + " - "
                  + (axes[i].isAnalog() ? "analog" : "digital")
                  + " - "
                  + axes[i].getDeadZone());
         }
      }

   }

}