3sNews 讯，一直出于半秘密
开发 状态的World Wind
JAVA 近日在JavaOne上亮相，news.com的报道称
开源 的
三维 地球
软件 ，
Google Earth和Virtual Earth最大竞争对手。和.net版本不同，Java版本的
WorldWind 是一个提供SDK的版本，用户可以使用该SDK，创建独立运行的三维地球软件，也可以将该系统嵌入浏览器。
资料：
cnet的报道：
Competing with Microsoft's Virtual Earth and Google Earth
官方wiki上对
World Wind Java的描述：
NASA World Wind provides next-generation 3-D virtual globe
technology for embedding in applications written in the Java
programming language. It supplies a suite of Java technology-based
components that developers include within their own applications,
providing virtual globe functionality to any application that can
benefit from it. This makes virtual globe technology available to far
more people in far more domains. Because of the Java programming
language's write once, run anywhere design, NASA World Wind components
are available and identical on all platforms. The components perform as
well as, or better than, any other known virtual-globe implementation
and utilize the OpenGL® API for 3-D graphics via Java OpenGL (JOGL).
This presentation introduces NASA World Wind and shows several ways of
embedding it in programs written in the Java programming language. It
describes how to deploy World Wind with Java Web Start software and as
an applet. It also shows how to extend World Wind to visualize any 2-D
or 3-D information in the context of an accurately modeled 3-D Earth
with terrain.
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Java