finally. nasa world wind java (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java) is out. i was wainting since january to play with it. it’s great that they moved from .net to java in order to get platform independent.

the sdk is very easy to use but the examples are horrible. three classes with a lot of swing and awt garbage. only 10 lines of code are really needed to get it working in processing.
Code:

import processing.opengl.*;
import gov.nasa.worldwind.*;
import gov.nasa.worldwind.awt.*;

void setup()
{
size(500, 500, JAVA2D);

WorldWindowGLCanvas wwd = new WorldWindowGLCanvas();
wwd.setSize(width, height);
this.add(wwd);

Model m = (Model) WorldWind.createConfigurationComponent(AVKey.MODEL_CLASS_NAME);
m.setShowWireframeExterior(true);
m.setShowWireframeInterior(false);
m.setShowTessellationBoundingVolumes(false);
wwd.setModel(m);
}
 

you have to get the worldwind sdk(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nasa-exp/worldwind.release.zip), and extract it. create the folders worldwind/library in processing’s libraries folder and copy the file worldwind.jar into it:
libraries/worldwind/library/worldwind.jar

Figured I'd bump this as I've started having a look at the code. The examples make sense I think for what they're trying to do, though what is missing -- as is often missing from the modern Java community -- is a barebones example. So this is great.

At least I will say their examples do build easily in both Eclipse and NetBeans, which should be nice for some of their target audience who may not be familiar with JOGL. But Processing integration is, of course, even better.

I wonder if it's possible to dig into the textures directly without the full WW interface? It appears to be. I don't *think* that violates their "not-quite-open" license, but I'm not a lawyer.

you cannot integrate awt/swing code into a processing canvas:
http://processing.org/faq.html#java

to do this properly, you should either keep all that canvas stuff offscreen (don't do an add() of the canvas) or you should embed a processing sketch and the worldwindcanvas into a java application--but that you'll have to do with a regular java ide.

that was just a speed hack in order to see if it works in processing. i did not try later versions of wordwind. but the one i used still works in processing 133.

there is a way to get the texture and terrain tiles from worldwind direct. i covered it in my blog:
http://i.document.m05.de/?p=362

If you want to try this out with michael05's code just add:

Code:

import gov.nasa.worldwind.avlist.AVKey; 

that seems to work fine for me with the latest SDK.

Any chance somebody would be willing to post some more source code examples of using World Wind inside Processing? Even just a few basic examples would be really helpful

Interesting... now getting this error, as others had -- on Windows, so I'll have to check other platforms:

Code:

Mar 28, 2008 4:34:21 PM gov.nasa.worldwind.AbstractSceneController draw
SEVERE: Exception encountered while repainting
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/opengl/util/j2d/TextRenderer

at gov.nasa.worldwind.layers.Earth.ScalebarLayer.drawLabel(Unknown Source)
 

Using Java 6 (05) + wwj 0.4.1. It's building okay for me in NetBeans (after some effort) and Eclipse, though, so I may try working with it sans-Processing for a bit to better understand it.