[GRASS-windows] Imbedding in Windows GUI Application

[WGPuckett]

I need to begin development of an application that will run on WinXP and/or
Win7.  One of the urgent needs for this application is to be able to display
panels with maps in 2.5D and 3D.  From what I have found, GRASS is just
about the only open source software that generates a sophisticated 3D map. 
Forgive me if I have missed this capability in reviewing the documentation
but it appears that GRASS is primarliy intended to work from a command level
scripting environment and not in a program environment.  I wanted to confirm
this before I move on.

I primarily code in Java but if necessary I can develop in C# or C++.  Is it
possible to utilize GRASS as an   API from a Java, C# or C++ application in
a native Windows environment?  If this is possible would someone direct me
to specific documentation and/or code examples?

I need to be able to display the maps from inside my Windows application and
control the maps from that application.  So I need to be able to ask GRASS
to generate the map and pass it back to the code so that code can include
the map in a panel.  I have written Windows applications using other mapping
API's in this fashion but none of those API's provide the 3D support that
GRASS does.

I appreciate any help in finding answers to my questions.
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