Proposals for future use of java

Motivation: most java development now seems to involve production of animated images for commercial applications.

NOAA is one of the few agencies that has special needs in the area of time-varying, 3-dimensional, scientific, data manipulation and display.

NOAA cannot count on rapid commercial development that will meet these needs.

These proposals reflect NOAA needs that are unlikely to be met by commercial providers.

2-D image manipulation
Linked data displays
3-D data manipulation
Client-based production of model-derived variables
Comparison of multiple data sets

Last modified: Tue Aug 5 17:40:06 DST 1997