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How NASA World Wind Java Came to Life

posted by Satri on Monday March 05, @12:57PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the life-is-full-of-surprises dept.
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The Earth is Square tells us why a java version of NASA World Wind was developed. From this page with the answer: "DOE's National Nuclear Security Agency competitively selected NASA World Wind as the visualization platform of choice and asked the NASA Ames World Wind team to refactor the software into an API-centric cross-platform SDK solution. Today we are demonstrating that cross platform solution World Wind Java (WWJ)."

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Industry: NASA World Wind Java Open Source but Closed Development [+]
Bull's Ramble blog tells us NASA World Wind Java (version 1.5) will stay in close development. From the blog: "We were all kind of expecting this, but personally I think NASA is shooting itself in the foot. I know of quite a few very skilled coders waiting for World Wind Java to start contributing code [...]"
Industry: FAQ for the Upcoming NASA World Wind Java Release [+]
The Earth is Square offers informative tidbits about the upcoming NASA World Wind Java release. Expect a public beta in April. From the short entry: "Q: Will WWJava be like the .Net version? A: Not at first. the .Net version of World Wind has been in development since 2004. The Java code has been in development since October 2006." Chad is also collecting question for his interview with the NASA WW team. Update: 02/12 21:47 GMT by S :The EiS blog added more answers regarding NWW's 1.4 release.
News About NASA World Wind JAVA and SDK 2 comments [+]
This was a busy week for the NASA World Wind developers. The Confused Life blog informs us that the World Wind JAVA SDK has been released, this is not the NASA World Wind Java version but it's a significant step closer. The Earth is Square blog provides links regarding NWW Java and an F-16 demo and the accompanying video along with an interview with the NWW Team. From the latter: "Q) How do you see World Wind in comparison to Google Earth and ArcGIS Explorer? NASA World Wind is focused on science, but more than that, World Wind provides the opportunity for others to expand this open source visualization platform in ways only others can imagine."
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  • Finally

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    by Anonymous Voxel on Monday March 05, @01:12PM (#1276)
    As much as I detest Java this is a good move for those of use without the capability to run .NET applications.

  • NWW Java development structure

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    by Satri (3) on Friday March 16, @09:37AM (#1319)
    ( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @04:07PM )
    Read interesting bits here [blogspot.com] and here [earthissquare.com]. From the first link: "2 - NASA intend to return to .NET development for World Wind 1.5 (depending on funding,politics, etc.), until then the Open Source community will run the project with releases approved by NASA."