GoogleEarth inside Java Swing

Question

Is it possible to embed a GoogleEarth view inside a Java Swing app? If so, could you please point me to a tutorial explaining how to do it?

Answer 1

Here's a lil' tutorial which explains it all:

http://www.brantb.com/2007/12/java-and-google-earth-com-api.html

It uses the Google Earth COM API

Answer 2

You can use Jawin to extract native stubs and use it to embed Google Earth on a Java Swing container. I've worked on it before, please check my demo video on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pf8V8uubVM

As WTP'-- pointed out to the Blog, http://www.brantb.com/2007/12/java-and-google-earth-com-api.html Brant used "com4J" to generate the stubs.

Answer 3

I just discovered a link on java.net ...

Building Maps into Your Swing Application with the JXMapViewer

Answer 4

you could us a java RDP client and run Google Earth on a remote desktop

Answer 5

There's also NASA's World Wind SDK.

Answer 6

Even though technically it is possible (using JXMapViewer), legaly it is not. Google does not allow using Google Maps outside of the browser.

One possible solution would be to embed JWebPane (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alex2d/archive/JWebPaneJ1.pdf) into your Swing App, but it is still not ready :(