Pedro,
The left is what exists in the network tables system, and the right is what exists in RoboRealm. So, yes, if you are using Java to access the network tables system then that would be the variable that you need to query i.e. /SmartDashboard/Distance. The reason for the /SmartDashboard/ prefix is so that it also shows up in the SmartDashboard app which uses that prefix as its namespace.
Note that we updated the robofile in
http://www.roborealm.com/FRC2013/slide060.php
to include the network tables module with the Set_Variable module to rename them into the SDB namespace.
STeven.