3sNews訊，一直出于半秘密開發(fā)狀態(tài)的World Wind JAVA近日在JavaOne上亮相，news.com的報道稱開源的三維地球軟件，Google Earth和Virtual Earth最大競爭對手。和.net版本不同，Java版本的WorldWind是一個提供SDK的版本，用戶可以使用該SDK，創(chuàng)建獨(dú)立運(yùn)行的三維地球軟件，也可以將該系統(tǒng)嵌入瀏覽器。

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cnet的報道：

官方wiki上對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