Interactive Graphics Toolkit for Java Applications and Web Applets

The Scientific Graphics Toolkit (SGT), a library of java graphics classes, facilitates the development of platform independent Java applications and web applets to produce highly interactive, flexible, publication quality, object-oriented graphics of scientific data. Features include user settable or automatically scaled axes, sophisticated, automatically self-scaling time axes, mouse-movable objects (labels, line keys, icons), cus-tomizable objects, automatic generation of legends to explain the data being displayed and contour plots. SGT, originally developed for NOAA's NOAAServer project (Daddio et al., 1999; Soreide and Daddio, 1998), has been used in the development of OceanShare, a collaborative tool for in-situ oceanographic data sets, and ncBrowse, a graphical netCDF file browser. For convenience of use, SGT conforms to the JavaBeans component architecture guidelines and can be used with both AWT and swing projects.