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Work in progress: ForceTen
Posted by fabriziogiudici on September 16, 2007 at 11:19 AM | Comments (6)
By the end of the year, blueMarine should hopefully spin off another sub-project: ForceTen, focused on the world of map rendering and geotagging.
To tell the truth, I hoped to be able to spin it off earlier, but this month of September has been (and still is) extremely busy. At the moment I have only been able to move the relevant sources to a specific Subversion project (https://forceten.dev.java.net/svn/forceten/trunk/src), while the website (http://forceten.tidalwave.it) is not ready yet (but you can already subscribe to the news feed). Also, sources need some refactoring and have still dependencies on blueMarine, so you will need to change them if you want to use them now.
But maybe it's the time for posting a little teaser. The basic features of this component are:
- integration with different map renderers: SwingLabs JXMapViewer, NASA World Wind (done), possibly a JavaScript-based renderer (for running the Google Maps APIs and showing Google Maps in a legal way (*)) and a SVG renderer (for SVG data published by OpenStreetMap);
- integration with different geo-coding providers;
- support for drag-and-drop geotagging;
- specific integration with NetBeans (even though I'll try to publish some stuff as plain J2SE).
Here is a quick screencast (400k, QuickTime, low quality to keep the size small) of the currently implemented features showing off in blueMarine.
I'll be showing ForceTen capabilities integrated in blueMarine at the next NetBeans Tech Days in Milan, Rome and Cagliari.
PS The part of the screencast showing photos dragged on the map is achieved by integrating the NetBeans Visual Library: after the Light Table, another creative use of it. Stay tuned on the next issue of the NetBeans Magazine for more details on it!
(*) Which is technically possible with JXMapViewer but - sadly - not legal.
Technorati Tags: blueMarine, NetBeans, NetBeans RCP, JXMapViewer, NASA World Wind, geotagging, Visual Library
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Looks cool, can you post a webstart demo?
Posted by: commanderkeith on September 17, 2007 at 08:14 PM
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I'll do it, but I need some weeks - as I said I have first to do some refactoring to remove dependencies from other parts of blueMarine.
Posted by: fabriziogiudici on September 18, 2007 at 12:12 AM
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Kewl. I am going to Brazil next week. I wasn't gonna bring my camera ...
Posted by: mnuttall on September 20, 2007 at 11:34 AM
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Have you done anything on the JavaScript-based renderer yet?
Posted by: shalter1 on December 04, 2007 at 11:42 AM
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Not yet - there are really tons of other things to do. In the meantime the NetBeans Magazine issue #4 is out, but I decided to talk only about the LightTable, as this already made for a lot of stuff. I'll blog about the JXMapViewer integration instead. In the meantime, ForceTen has been completely spun off blueMarine (forceten.dev.java.net), but I can't prepare yet a JWS because of a blocking bug in NetBeans 6.
Posted by: fabriziogiudici on December 04, 2007 at 12:09 PM
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I'm so grateful for all that you've done. Thanks again for that nice essay and I would be most grateful if you would send me the latter ones....
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