Re: [udig-devel] udigLite: An OSGi-friendly subset

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi - this post would make a good news announcement(do you have access
to the udig blog?).

I also tried to identify a subset of modules that could be dragged
into an existing RCP app (without making any contributions to the user
interface) - the result was the rcp-feature; and there is a tracking
demo built around it. We had to split up project.ui to make it happen.

On a related note Harald we have to be very careful with the branding
story of uDig (especially with a small community). As such I would ask
that you - try and attract volunteers for this work - but not users. I
would like to ask both you (and whatever volunteers we can gather) to
bring this valuable work back into geotools and udig and improve the
baseline.

I had expected to do some of this work with you back in January; I am
really pleased that it is now ready.

Congratulations,
Jody

PS. I have watched three other teams turn GeoAPI and GeoTools into
OSGi friendly bundles in order to escape the version hell Mr. Wellmann
describes - as such I am really into supporting this effort.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Wellmann, Harald
<harald.wellmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some of you may remember the discussion I raised last autumn about
> getting rid of net.refractions.udig.libs and putting each library
> required by uDig into its own OSGi bundle a.k.a. Eclipse plug-in.
>
> I announced that we would branch off to develop a solution to match our
> requirements, and we have now created the first release of our uDig
> subset under the name of udigLite (including osgified subsets of
> Geotools and GeoAPI).
>
> More details on udigLite, binary packages, building from source and
> changes we made can be found in the uDig Hacking wiki at
>
> http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/udigLite+-+An+OSGi-f
> riendly+subset
>
> To get an idea of why we are doing all this and what we are building on
> top of uDig, read the story in my blog:
>
> http://hwellmann.blogspot.com/2009/03/anaconda-workbench-udig-applicatio
> n.html
>
> Let me repeat that I would be more than happy if this work would be
> merged back into the uDig and Geotools mother projects rather sooner
> than later.
>
> For the time being, we will continue to work on our clones to have a
> stable basis for our own application.
>
> Everyone who is building applications on top of uDig and found himself
> trapped in third-party dependency hell as we have is invited to have a
> look at udigLite or volunteer to osgify additional libraries they might
> need.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Harald
>
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