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

[Craig Taverner <udig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be very interesting to know where the border is between plugins that have been OGSi'ified (in Haralds uDIGLite) and those that are not, using other metrics that uDIG developers know, like for example, how many of the tutorial examples could be done with uDIGLite? And which ones cannot? This might help also identify which are the highest priority remaining plugins to refactor, and therefor lead to a roadmap of actions to get to a fully refactored uDIG?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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