J/CarnacGIS 3.0 - Release Notes

November 2004

1. New v3.0 Features

. Real-time animation and tracking support.
. Session templating and application state persistance.
. Support for thumbnail views, multiple main views, split views, and multiple projects.
. Support for over 1,500 EPSG standard Coordinate Reference Systems.
. Support for custom Coordinate Reference Systems and Transformations.
. Newly simplified data connection system allows for easy integration of custom and proprietary data types.
. DXF data type support

2. Standard Features

. Fully concurrent map rendering and feature querying for low-latency map navigation
. Powerful selection and classification engine
. JavaBean™ compliant standard GUI controls
. Generalized query mechanism allows for loading from local and remote data sources
. Fully customizable feature symbology
. Server-side rendering capability for thin clients
. Applet and Webstart capabilities for thick clients
. Supported data types:
- Shapefile (.shp)
- Raster (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG)
- GeoTIFF
- USGS DEM/GTOPO30
- Simple Grid
- NetCDF
- NIMA DTED Level 0, 1, and 2

3. Building and running the demos and tutorials

. Download and install the Java2 SDK v1.4.1 (or later)
. Download and install the Ant build system
. You may want to add Ant's bin directory to your PATH environment variable, so that Ant may be run from anywhere on the command line.
. Make sure the JAVA_HOME environment variable has been set to the home directory of your JDK (for example "C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.4.1")
. Run ant from the command line in the GisDemo directory (probably C:\INT\demos\jcarnacgis\gisdemo) to build the GisDemo
. Run runme.bat or runme.sh (depending on your particular environment) to run the demo.
. Run ant from the tutorials directory (probably /INT/tutorials/jcarnacgis) to build the tutorials
. Run the runme script named for a specific tutorial to start that tutorial.

4. Platforms

. User: Java 2 JRE version 1.4 or greater
. Developer: Java 2 JDK version 1.4.1 or greater

5. Required additional packages

. Java Advanced Imaging v1.1.1
. JDOM v8 or higher (included)
. geotiff.jar (htpp://www.geotiff.org) (included)
. xtiff-jai.jar (htpp://www.geotiff.org) (included)
. GeoTools 2.0 or higher (included).
. The Java3D vecmath library (included)
. JFreeReport 0.8.x or higher and required libraries (included)
. Java Help (included)

6. Optional Packages

. J/GeoToolkit 2.5 for J/Contour or J/CarnacPro shape support