GeoFlexy, a Groovy World Wind application

[turman]

Hi,

I'm starting a new project for fun, it is called GeoFlexy. It's a kind of sandbox allowing me to play with different sexy technologies like: GeoTools, GeoServer, Google Maps API and of course World Wind Java SDK.

The basic idea is to have a shared and spatial "spots" database usefull for me and friends of mine. And to have a lot of fun with the fantastic frameworks I have mentioned above.

The spots database can be managed by a web interface (thanks to the Groovy language and to Grails, a killer web framework).

The visualization can be done either in 2D with Google Maps or in 3D with a Java applet based on WWJ. The applet use GeoTools to fetch WFS features from GeoServer.

You can test it here: http://www.onlacherien.org/geoflexy/
No login is required for now. It is my personnal server, currently with pbs so it's not up every time.

I will put the sources online after some basic cleaning. In fact I don't have written a lot of code for now, I'm just using classes from these powerfull libraries.

Here is some screenshots:

















Any feedback would be appreciated..

Vinz.

[TomServo]

Looks really interesting. I will have to try it out tomorrow for sure.

[freespy]

couldn't visit your website, it return an 404 error.

[turman]

Oops I renamed my project to GeoFlexy and I forgot to fix the links on this post.. fixed.

[slarti]

HI,

I could load your Page, but I could not find the WWJ Applet? Maybe because my french is too bad to understand everything on your page...

But could you eventually post a direct link to the page with your WWJ applet?

Greets,
slarti

[TomServo]

Look at the WWJava screen shot and put in that URL

[turman]

Yeap it's not easy to find the applet link if you're not a french speaker, sorry! In fact it concerns only the home page, the other pages are in english. Here is the direct link: http://www.onlacherien.org/geoflexy/applet/index.gsp

You need to have Java6 installed on your system (in fact it should word with Java5 since I configured my Eclipse compiler compliance level to 5.0, but my test failed when I tried with my old JRE 5.0).

The framerate is very low (~10 fps on my box). Note that the same applet when executed outside the browser (ie. from my Eclipse) is around 50 fps!!! I know there's a lot of memory limitations for applet (see tag post), I guess Eclipse applet context is very different.

So I will try to distribute my app as a classic application too (JavaWebStart).

[TomServo]

I did find a bug with the applet... but it is nothing you can fix though. The firewall at work seems to be blocking WWJ applets from loading.

[turman]

Yes I cannot do a lot of things for that.. except I'm going to distribute the app via JavaWebStart, so maybe it will work with several HTTP proxies..

BTW here is a new screenshot with Swing GUI improved:

[turman]

And if a admin/moderator could rename the topic title from "Geomastic" to "GeoFlexy, a Groovy World Wind application", it would be nice..

[TomServo]

Now why would I want to do that?

[withak]

How come "Groovy" is capitalized but "application" isn't?

[turman]

Thanks Tom!

withak: I prefer to capitalize Groovy word since it is more relating to the Groovy language than to the 'groovy' adjective. But don't mistake, the application is still groovy by nature..

PS: the web GUI of GeoFlexy is built on Grails (which use Groovy).

[withak]

OIC. Carry on then.

[patmurris]

Yeap it's not easy to find the applet link ...Here is the direct link: http://www.onlacherien.org/geoflexy/applet/index.gsp

After waiting quite some time with "Loading...", it failed with "Error: class not found: org.geoflexy.GeoFlexyApplet".
The screenshots look real good though

BTW: there has been some work done with applets in the SDK. You may want to check the latest SDK version - sept 15.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/n...e.20070915.zip

Also, i'd be glad to have your opinion about WWJ applets and GMap api - check this thread:
http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=11264

PS: sur la "Big Map" il manque les endroits ou l'on peut trouver de la vrai Socca niƧoise... ainsi que la position actuelle des loups du Mercantour - lol.