Map coordinates in MapViewer

Hi,
I have a Java application that submit requests to MapViewer. MapViewer4s response is a XML document, something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<map_response>
<map_image>
<map_content url="http://map.oracle.com/output/map029763.gif" />
<box srsName="default">
<coordinates>-122.260443,37.531621 -120.345,39.543</coordinates>
</box>
<WMTException version="1.0.0" error_code="SUCCESS"/>
</map_image>
</map_response>
Thus, what I do is using a JLabel to show the image in the URL returned by MapViewer.
All of this is working fine. Now I4m trying to make something more complicated.
What I want to do is caught the user4s mouse click in the image and translate the point in which the user clicked (pixels) to a point in the map coordinates (longitude, latitude).
How can I do this ? What API may I use ?
Thanks,
Rodrigo

The <BOX> element in the XML map response gives you the bounding box of the returned map image, in user's coordinate space.
Now you can get the mouse click's x,y in terms of pixels, and you also know the map image's width/height in terms of pixels. It should be easy to translate the click's position into user space.
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