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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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Full Screen with Eclipse RCP

With the upcoming Eclipse 3.4 release, one of the new features for RCP developers will be the ability to run their RCP applications in full screen mode. Chris Aniszczyk has an article about the new feature along with a code sample on DZone.

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