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Why Should You Choose ILOG JViews Maps?
When selecting a product to create a map display, Java developers generally consider two important questions: do the products have the necessary features, and how reliable is the company behind the product? Every product has some key features which set it apart from the competition, so why should you choose ILOG JViews Maps?
Maps that contain your objects
Many map solutions on the market provide excellent geographical information system (GIS) capabilities. Their focus is to provide users with good map data, servers to distribute it, and the means to query that data and view the results on the map. But when the user’s primary interest is in monitoring the specialized objects displayed on top of the map, GIS-focused solutions do a poor job. They do not provide adequate services for creating and manipulating the custom objects that are placed on top of the map.
ILOG JViews Maps is ideal for creating map-based monitoring applications because it provides services for highly efficient map displays as well as the custom graphics that go over the map. With ILOG JViews Maps, objects can move, change their appearance, and can be manipulated by the end-user according to the needs of the application.
Accelerated speed
ILOG customers are initially attracted to ILOG JViews Maps because of the speed of interaction with the screen. Users need better display performance than what is available with other solutions. They find it with ILOG JViews Maps.
ILOG JViews Maps was built from the ground up for efficient map display performance. It uses a variety of techniques to provide the following:
- Animation and update rates of up to 64 frames per second
- Initial map display time of about two seconds
- Zooming in or zooming out at 64 frames per second
- Rotation of the map at 40 frames per second
- Refresh rate of 1000 moving objects: 30 frames per second
- Refresh rate of 15,000 moving objects: five frames per second
Immediate response
ILOG JViews Maps is completely multi-threaded, enabling it to do several things at one time. For the end-user, this means that the display will respond immediately to user interaction even if it is performing another time-intensive operation, such as loading a large and complex map.
Large data sets
Map data displays often require gigabytes or terabytes to be read and processed. ILOG JViews Maps uses multiple smart loading and caching algorithms to access the correct subsets of data for maximum performance.
For example, a 252 MB map comprised of 14 layers of map data (two with elevation data, six with vector information, five with satellite imagery down to one meter resolution, and one for custom objects) requires just 23 MB of memory. This includes 7 MB for the map application and 16 MB for the map cache. (Only 6% of the map is loaded on RAM.)
Custom solutions
ILOG JViews Maps is not delivered as a pre-defined application. Like other products in the ILOG JViews family, it is provided as a Java software development kit (SDK) that Java developers use to build their end-user applications. All of the essential map display and manipulation building blocks are provided so that developers can focus on designing their application-specific features. Many examples are provided with source code and are designed to be good starting points for developers writing their custom solutions.
Physical networks
ILOG JViews Maps includes important pieces of the ILOG JViews Diagrammer product. ILOG JViews Maps inherits from ILOG JViews Diagrammer the ability to show highly custom objects in a connected network on top of a map. These physical networks display the graphical objects (representing physical assets) placed in their correct, geo-referenced positions on top of the map, with links drawn between them (representing relationships).
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A logical network display, which is designed to highlight the interrelationships between nodes, can be used as a nice complement to a physical network display.
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Logical Network Display Example. |
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Completeness
ILOG JViews Maps contains everything you need when developing your application. Its breadth of features includes:
- Highly efficient load-on-demand, and double caching mechanisms, optimized quad-tree, clipping and automated tiling for greater display speed
- Seven raster and terrain elevation map formats and four vector map formats as well as database connectivity, representing over 90% of the available map data
- 1,944 pre-defined coordinate systems, 26 projections, 58 ellipsoids and Molodenski DATUMS
- Five position reference systems, 22 measuring units, orthodromy and loxodromy measures
- Highly efficient Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), as well as latitudinal and longitudinal grid systems
- Date-line warping and advanced geodetic representations
- Automated legends and map magnification
- Easy web-based deployments
Please see the ILOG JViews Maps features page for a complete list of ILOG JViews Maps features and services.
Easy deployment
Until now, mapping solutions have come with complex licensing, tied to a machine or a disk. If something crashed, your system was offline until the vendor generated a new license. Thanks to ILOG JViews Maps, you no longer have to deal with those deployment issues. ILOG JViews Maps has no licensing restrictions, so you can get back online immediately after you deploy your application.
Upgradeable to Maps for Defense
JViews Maps is designed for any application domain where a background map is needed. But if you need to create a more specialized, defense-related application, try ILOG JViews Maps for Defense. It includes pre-built military symbol sets, defense map format readers and advanced 3D-terrain analysis features. The JViews Maps SDK is a perfectly compatible with the Maps for Defense SDK and can be upgraded if needed.
You’ve just read some of the benefits ILOG JViews Maps has to offer.
Why Should You Choose an ILOG JViews Product?
If your development project needs an advanced user interface display, you have options. For example, you can build your own GUI from scratch or you can try to cobble together a solution using open source components. So why use ILOG JViews?
More reliable and practical than in-house development
JViews products empower developers to focus on the needs of your end users.
Developing rich, sophisticated displays from scratch is difficult, requiring a varied mix of skills—everything from graphics expertise to architecture design and web deployment. Add graph theory, cartography, or some other specialization and the task is daunting. ILOG JViews takes care of all of these challenges for Java developers, providing a field-tested, proven library of components that they can immediately leverage.
A Software Development Kit (SDK) with tools that accelerate development time
ILOG JViews products are delivered as a set of customizable graphical components—a software development kit (Java class libraries). In addition to the SDK, ILOG JViews contains a number of point-and-click editors that allow for customization without coding—integrated development environments (IDEs) for high end graphical displays. As with an IDE, developers can refine the output with the underlying SDK. The editors speed both prototyping and development efforts while the SDK ensures access to all of the product’s functionality.
A broad range of features
Each ILOG JViews product contains a full host of features to meet your needs. Most have been gathered from customer requests over the past 20 years and from previous ILOG Visualization products. Chances are high that what you need is built into the product. ILOG JViews comes with a completely open and fully documented application programming interface (API), making it easy to extend and subclass existing classes.
Built to solve the most demanding problems
Some solutions work fine with small problem sets. For example, open source graph layout algorithms may be adequate when your network has 100 nodes but not with 10,000. Or a basic map display works fine, but not if real-time moving objects are added.
ILOG JViews products are architected to handle large problem sets, so they avoid these types of issues. With features such as load-on-demand, triple buffering, and double-caching algorithms, large data sets are handled with ease.
Build once for both the desktop and the web client
Every ILOG JViews product has functionality for deployment as either a desktop Java applet or application, or as a thin web client. When deployed as a web client, ILOG JViews runs on the server and generates an image, along with JavaScript, so there is no needs to install a plug-in. Options supported by ILOG JViews include JavaServer Faces interoperability, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) thin clients and asynchronous JavaScripting and XML (AJAX) client-side updates.
An economical choice
ILOG JViews has a variety of pricing models, most of which do not require deployment or runtime fees. Special programs exist for academics, the government, and start-up software houses. Maintenance options deliver automatic updates so that your product’s GUIs remain world class. And a special combined training and consulting package is priced below industry norms, so that your staff can train quickly and your project can start on time. Read more about ILOG JViews pricing options.
Excellent customer support options
ILOG customer support has got you covered, no matter what your needs may be. Most customers find that ILOG standard maintenance service is all they require. Those with special needs use our optional, extended services, such as 24-hour on-site support. ILOG develops other optional solutions to meet the needs of the few customers who need service beyond both the standard and optional service plans.
Industry leadership
Nearly one out of three JViews developers on ILOG’s development staff has a Ph.D in their field, offering the depth of talent to tackle the most difficult areas in the science of visualization. But our developers take their expertise beyond ILOG products, and frequently apply their talents in numerous industry working groups, steering committees, and standards bodies. ILOG development staff is active in organizations that include OpenGIS (mapping), W3C SVG (graphics interchange formats), TeleManagement Forum (communications standards), and BPMN (workflow standards). ILOG frequently presents products at various technology conferences and contributes articles to scholarly and industry trade journals.
Chosen by more developers in more industries
Used by hundreds of companies and thousands of developers around the world, ILOG JViews is the leading product line in the visualization components marketplace. The ILOG telecom and datacom display (JTGO) product is used by 18 of the top 20 telecom service providers, 18 of the top 20 equipment manufacturers, and 25 of the top 40 optical equipment providers. Chances are an ILOG JViews display is managing your computer or phone network, highway transportation system, or business process.
Ongoing corporate commitment
ILOG has been providing Visualization software components since 1987, and continues to invest heavily in these products. ILOG does not rely on consulting revenues to generate a product’s profits. All ILOG products are packaged for immediate use by your development team, and since the company has a varied product base, it is a stable choice. All ILOG products are backed with frequent maintenance releases, global support and professional consulting.
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