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Hans Muller's BlogOpening the Door to JavaDesktop.orgPosted by hansmuller on June 12, 2003 at 11:17 AM | Comments (2)If you've been traveling for a long time, opening the final door is an perspective changing experience that happens so fast that it's easy to miss. After driving and waiting and getting on the plane and then a bus and then renting a car and getting lost and getting directions and then finding the address (had trouble parking) and you knock and the door opens and the person on the other side says hello and welcome. Like you might have just walked over from next door. The debut of JavaDesktop.org feels like that. It's been a long (I'm not going to insert "strange") trip between the early days of Desktop Java and finally having a focal point where we can all visit and share and complain and inspire. We've always been a big community, however sometimes it was hard to see it all at once because the work we do is very diverse and it's nicely distributed all over the world. It's great to have a place to visit and see it all. Which brings me to the point of this blog, which is bragging about all of the amazing Desktop Java applications that I've heard about. An old friend of mine works nearby at the NASA/AMES facility in Mountain view and he's part of the crew building the software for Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission that launched just yesterday. The scientists who'll be monitoring the Mars data will use a nice Swing application called Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) that provides access to all of the data, including stereo images, as well as project management tools for dealing with all of the schedules and tasks required for keeping the mission humming. Scientists will be able analayze the Mission data collaboratively using an amazing Swing desktop called "MERBoard". It's hosted on huge plasma touch screen displays and scientists at different locations can work together at reviewing and annotating and talking over the data. The folks at NASA told us about another desktop Java app that was developed for this mission down at JPL. It's called Science Activity Planner (SAP) and it's used to create the programs that are uploaded to the Mars Rovers each day. We haven't seen this one yet however the word "cool" came up repeatedly. As soon as I can figure out how to include pictures in this blog, I'll add a CIP screenshot or two and a few pictures of the MERBoard in action. So it's great to finally arrive here at JavaDesktop.org. Where's the beer? Bookmark blog post:  del.icio.us  Digg  DZone  Furl  Reddit
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