JavaOne 2014Flexibility Breeds Complexity: Living in a Modular World

THE WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT TOOL (WMT)BRUCE SCHUBERT – EMXSYS

HTTP://EMXSYS.COM

HTTPS://BITBUCKET.ORG/EMXSYS/WILDFIRE-MANAGEMENT-TOOL

The Wildfire Management Tool (WMT)

Controls Inputs Location Outputs

Flexibility Breeds Complexity

Theory is when is when you know something, but it doesn’t work.

Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why.

Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

Living in a Modular WorldHow WMT deals with complexity

1. Built on the Terramenta GIS NetBeans framework Provides 3D Virtual Globe, Time Controls, & Drawing Tools

Wraps the NASA World Wind SDK

2. Uses the Flamingo Ribbon Bar Self Documenting UI via Rich Tooltips

@RibbonActionReference annotation

3. Extends the NetBeans Global Context Makes the current project always available in

Utilities.actionsGlobalContext()

See: http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqAddGlobalContext

Demo

Terramenta

WMT-Application POM adds Terramenta dependency <!-- Terramenta -->

<dependency>

<artifactId>terramenta-application</artifactId>

<groupId>com.terramenta</groupId>

<version>${terramenta.version}</version>

<type>zip</type>

</dependency>

@RibbonActionReference

Custom Annotation defined in the Terramenta Ribbon Module@ActionReference(path = "Toolbars/Map", position = 4100)

@RibbonActionReference( path = "Menu/Home/Zoom", position = 100,

description = "#CTL_ZoomInAction_Hint",

tooltipTitle = "#CTL_ZoomInAction_TooltipTitle",

tooltipBody = "#CTL_ZoomInAction_TooltipBody",

tooltipIcon = "com/emxsys/wmt/core/images/zoom_in.png",

tooltipFooter = "#CTL_ZoomInAction_TooltipFooter",

tooltipFooterIcon = "com/emxsys/wmt/core/images/keyboard24.png",

autoRepeatAction = true)

Extending NetBeans Global Context

Use Case: Action.actionPerformed(…)

Project currentProject =

Utilities.actionsGlobalContext().lookup(Project.class);

Implementation defined in WMT Core Module:

com.emxsys.wmt.core.project.GlobalActionContextProxy

See Geertjan’s Blog:

blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/org_openide_util_contextglobalprovider

Links

Home Page: http://emxsys.com

Wildfire Management Tool source:https://bitbucket.org/emxsys/wildfire-management-

toolhttps://bitbucket.org/emxsys/emxsys-terramenta

Terramenta source:https://bitbucket.org/teamninjaneer/terramenta