ILOG JViews Maps for Defense is a comprehensive set of software editors and graphics components that delivers unparalleled flexibility and openness for creating realistic and dynamic map displays with georeferenced data. It targets command and control systems, meeting their requirements for preparing, monitoring and directing military operations.From the leading supplier of software components, ILOG JViews Maps for Defense provides high-level components and powerful off-the-shelf features that enable developers to go from prototype to deployable tactical applications in the shortest time possible. Its flexible, cross-platform approach guarantees that you can create well-suited, vendor independent custom solutions, while its prebuilt and pretested components save in-house development costs. Domain-specific features include all the major military map formats and symbol sets, high-precision grids and coordinate systems, terrain analysis services, and many customizable graphical representations.ILOG JViews Maps for Defense supports the layering of a wide range of raster and vector map data to assemble coherent displays within a userdefined reference system, no matter the storage or geographic parameters. It provides full control over the look and feel of the end-user display, and the visual themes used for each zoom level to provide contextual information displays.To achieve fast refresh rates for video-like zooming and object animation, ILOG JViews Maps for Defense uses advanced rendering techniques and a multithreaded load-on-demand mechanism for extremely large data sets. This also allows the deployment of sophisticated applications on laptop systems. Tests have shown zoom rates of 35-60 frames per second with sustained high-resolution imaging.ILOG JViews Maps for Defense fully supports standard military symbologies, and comes with the NATO APP6a/MIL STD 2525B symbol set for building map displays for joint international operations. It also provides the tools needed to create custom symbology libraries containing data-aware graphic objects. ILOG JViews Maps for Defense displays the symbols over maps and updates them in real time as data streams in from the field.ILOG JViews Maps for Defense is a purely object-oriented tool based on advanced design patterns and a model view controller (MVC) architecture. It allows developers to easily combine any of the numerous provided features or derive from them the exact look and feel, and behavior needed for an application. Its open architecture facilitates integration with third-party solutions or enrichment of existing legacy systems.ILOG's software technologies are well known for their reliability, high performance and flexibility, and used by military services the world over in strategic applications. ILOG JViews Maps for Defense is backed by a full line of visualization products for making graphically rich, user-friendly interfaces with charts and a wide range of diagrams, including graph layouts or planning views. For more than a decade, developers in the defense industry have used these products to build displays for a broad range of applications.