Re: [udig-devel] uDig and plugin development

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Crag; I cannot hide the IDE projects (indeed we do not have them
anywhere). uDig has no references to IResource.

I think that if we were looking to intergrating with IResource we
would save a Map to an individual file - ie completly skip the uDig
project organization.

In any case when IDE intergration comes up we can look into this stuff.

I am interested in hearing what Andrea has done.

Jody


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Craig Taverner <udig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>
> I had a developer recently point out to me that the way uDIG managed
> projects and the way the eclipse IDE managed projects was quite different.
> So if you wanted to have an IDE and a GIS together, you would have two
> different sets of projects, one for uDIG managed by EMF and one for the IDE
> managed by eclipse.core.resources. I personally think this is OK if the
> integration is user friendly, for example the uDIG project has references to
> the IDE projects that it is interested in. Then when you open a uDIG
> project, you get two projects tabs, one for the uDIG projects and one for
> the IDE projects those uDIG projects have referenced.
>
> And you could make it clearer to the user by hiding the IDE projects when in
> Map perspective, and having it only show up when you are in, for example, a
> 'GIS Developers' perspective.
>
> I think this is compatible with the current uDIG, so IResources is still
> optional. And I guess the references from uDIG to IResources can simply be
> added by a plugin that adds to what a uDIG project persists to disk, and
> that would simply be a reference to the IDE projects? Am I making any sense?
> Is this what you meant by your 'net.refractions.udig.
> resource' plugin?'
>
> Cheers, Craig
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> yes - the org.eclipse.core.resources code (that handles the definition
>> of IResource) is not part of the RCP platform; as such we did not use
>> these facilities when defining uDig.
>>
>> You are welcome to make use of these constructs in your own work (I
>> think the jgrass project may have some advise on intergration) however
>> it is not part of core udig.
>>
>> Aside: I am open to hosting an "net.refractions.udig.resource" plugin
>> in udig that defines how this relationship can be managed for projects
>> that are interested. I just do not want to force RCP developers to
>> take on the IResource api when they may not be interested.
>>
>> Jody
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Ahmed Abdelsalam <ahmed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,...
>> >
>> > I'm developing a plugin that would work with uDig. I developed the
>> > plugin
>> > successfully and it worked with normal eclipse application. However,
>> > when
>> > integrating the plugin with uDig, I met some errors like the following:
>> >
>> > Bundle 'org.eclipse.core.resources' cannot be resolved
>> > Bundle 'org.eclipse.ui.editors' cannot be resolved
>> > Bundle 'org.eclipse.ui.ide' cannot be resolved
>> > The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot
>> > find
>> > the class file for org.eclipse.core.resources.IProjectNature.
>> > The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot
>> > find
>> > the class file for org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ITextEditor.
>> > Unknown extension point: 'org.eclipse.core.resources.natures'
>> >
>> >
>> > Any suggestions to solve the above problems?
>> >
>> > Regards,...
>> >
>> > Ahmed
>> >
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