Embedding NASA World Wind in an Eclipse Application

Vladimir Silva has written an article for IBM DeveloperWorks outlining how to embed NASA World Wind into an Eclipse RCP or Plugin project. For those of you whom haven’t heard, NASA World Wind is basically an embeddable, open source version of Google Earth. It uses JOGL (Java OpenGL Bindings) to display map data on a 3D globe. Very cool stuff!

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Top Five Sessions from JavaOne 2008

James Sugrue has posted his Top Five Sessions from JavaOne 2008 over at JavaLobby. You can check out some of the other sessions on Sun’s website and see if you agree.

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