[udig-devel] udig life cd

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, this is something that was discussed a bit in the past in udig and
geotools, but I couldn't find answers to my doubts.
It deals with the need of small and simple configurable viewers based on
geotools, while geotools doesn't support the gui part any longer (at
least not regularly). I support the decision, since geotools is the
library and the viewers should be made on top of udig...

...BUT... udig is really a beast to tame :) and just knowing a bit of
java is not enough, while it is/was with the geotools classes.

So here I go with some straight questions regarding the possibility to
start udig in lightweight mode (just some necessary modules) with
preloaded data from a cd:

1) the udig executable has no command line arguments? For example to
pass it a project to be loaded. I couldn't find any.

2) when launching udig from a cd, which is obviously readonly, is the
default workspace created in the home? I assume it is not possible to
have a project launched from cd, since the workspace containes
.metadata, which are read and written every time to remember the
perspective's configuration and other nice stuff.

3) the data instead should be no problem, even if readonly, just you
will not be able to change the style, right?

4) imagine to have to automagically load a whole pile of geotiffs and
geojpgs. Obviously you can't preload them, instead you could have
somewhere a list with the bounds and you could load only the visible
ones in the window and also make the visualization scaledependent. Where
could I best nest the regarding code for this?

5) is it the product that one creates to keep the packaging infos, i.e.
if I create a viewer with just sdk classes and no others, than will
anyone be able to recreate that viewer just by having the product plugin?


Thanks for any help that you will (hopefully) give me :)

Andrea