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WWJava To Be Released at JavaOne 2008

posted by lxnyce on Friday March 28, @09:45AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the fighting-flash-with-java dept.
NASA Virtual Globe
The Earth Is Square reports that the new WorldWind Java 1.0 will be released at JavaOne. From their summary: "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."

Visit the Earth Is Square blog for more information.

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