The new ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF and Java on Windows is now available to all Esri Developer Network (EDN) subscribers. This new SDK provides the development tools and resources that allow you to create focused mapping applications. The SDK enables you to integrate both online and local maps, locators, and geoprocessing models to create rich, highly functional GIS applications that take full advantage of the Java platform for Desktop or Microsoft’s WPF technology.
In a connected scenario, the application can consume content and services from ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online (including hosted services available as part of an ArcGIS Online subscription). In a disconnected scenario (your users don’t have a network or Internet connection), you can provision their devices with local packages containing GIS resources, such as maps, data and geoprocessing tools, so that users can work while disconnected. Spatial analysis, geocoding, routing and editing can all be performed against local maps and data.
The SDK allows for modular 64-bit deployment; you select the subset of ArcGIS Runtime components necessary to support the GIS functionality you have chosen to include with your application making it a small easy to deploy application.
Note – The Runtime SDK for Java on Linux will be available in a few weeks