Before you start

Rogue Wave® JViews Maps offers a wide range of mapping services for building custom user interfaces.

To provide these services, it relies on services provided by JViews Diagrammer.

To be successful with the JViews Maps product, it is important for you to understand its architecture and its dependencies.

Rogue Wave JViews Maps is a collection of:

Applications

Software Development Kits (SDKs)

The applications are prebuilt and:

Preconfigure the maps used in the application during run time.

Define the symbols you can place on top of the maps and their behavior when application data changes.

The applications are typically used to configure parts of your application before run time. They accelerate application development, but do not need to be used within your final delivery. The structure of Rogue Wave JViews Maps is shown below:

Rogue Wave JViews Maps structure

The features of Rogue Wave JViews Maps are also available through the SDKs, which provide a full range of features and greater flexibility. If necessary, you can extend the Java classes to create the precise user interface that your user requires.