This year’s JavaOne will be a big one for WWJava, for one the NASA WorldWind team will be releasing WWJava 1.0 and there will be several WWJava based sessions.

Putting 3-D Earth into Your Applications and Web Pages

NASA World Wind provides 3-D virtual globe technology that you can put in your applications. It’s a visual component based on the JavaBeans™ component architecture, with an extensible API and a friendly user interface that you can easily enhance or even replace. It can be used as-is or highly customized. You can put one or more in your programs or your web pages. In a web page, you can control it with the JavaScript™ programming language. It’s as good as it sounds; it’s what the world has been waiting for.

You’ll learn in this session how to use, customize, and extend NASA World Wind for the Java™ platform. It shows you how to create several programs and illustrates how to employ 3-D virtual globe technology in your standalone and Web 2.0 products. You’ll find out where to start and where to get this amazing open-source component.

NASA World Wind Java™ Technology BOF

Since debuting at the 2007 JavaOne℠ conference, NASA World Wind has been deployed in dozens of applications and has attracted an excited World Wind developer community. This BOF brings many of those people together to meet the World Wind technical leaders and provides a forum for discussion, ideas, questions, and help. It is a follow-on to the technical session “Putting 3D Earth in Your Applications and Web Pages.”

blueMarine: Or Why You Should Really Ship Swing Applications

This presentation introduces the blueMarine project, an open-source desktop application that supports the photographic workflow. It supports cataloging, creation of galleries, publishing, and different ways to geotag photos against a 2-D map or 3-D representation of the world implemented with NASA World Wind. The design of blueMarine follows best practices for the creation of a “filthy rich client,” from animations to the use of Java OpenGL (JOGL), and takes advantage of the rich framework delivered by the NetBeans™ IDE rich client platform (RCP). The presentation demonstrates some of the advanced sections of the blueMarine user interface and quickly explains the components used behind it–most of them have been explicitly designed to integrate with the RCP APIs of the NetBeans IDE and are available as a separate download to be easily reusable for developing other applications.

These two sessions reference WWJava, but are not really about WorldWind.

• NetBeans™ IDE Plug-In Module Development for 3-D Model Viewer, Using Java™ OpenGL (JOGL)
• Duke Riding the Geospatial Wave