Hi Dan,

You use a Style for rendering the points that includes a
TextSymbolizer to control how labels are displayed.

Your Style can be defined in an SLD document or be created
programmatically.  The StyleLab example introduces both methods...

http://geotools.org/examples/stylelab.html

Although it doesn't get into labelling it illustrates the basic
concepts and how to link a Style to your features in a MapLayer.

A quick way of creating a Style with labels programmatically is to use
the SLD helper class createPointStyle method...

http://geotools.org/javadocs/org/geotools/styling/SLD.html#createPointStyle(java.lang.String,%20java.awt.Color,%20java.awt.Color,%20float,%20float,%20java.lang.String,%20org.geotools.styling.Font)

Styling is a really big topic and I always feel I'm in the lower
foothills of the learning curve :)  I've kept this answer brief rather
than loading you up with links to detailed info, but if you need more
detail please ask.

Michael

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