Substance of Code

I thought it was already Christmas as I just received a package from Sun Microsystems full of NetBeans goodies. I won these from the NetBeans.TV competition. Package included nice T-shirt, Rich Client Programming book, NetBeans pen, 1Gb memory stick and stress ball (or cube actually).
I have used NetBeans IDE 6.0 from the early daily builds [...]

I have had this idea of visualizing global networks and connections with 3d globe for a long time but haven’t had time to try it out. Now that I’ve been exploring possibilities of Java 3D I was able to implement this feature quite easily.
The current API looks like this:

Globe globe = new Globe(this);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, “Germany”);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, “Italy”);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, [...]

The developing of Mobile Trail Explorer is progressing well. We have received excellent code contributions from the community as I’m proud to present the OpenStreetMap integration in Mobile Trail Explorer. Big thanks to Gareth and Dennis!

There are also other new features such as filtering recorded positions by maximum speed, minimum distance etc. Information view [...]