| [udig-devel] Best way to Web Start uDig App? |
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Hi, We have recently started a project based on uDig. Our
customers wanted web start and so we found ways to run a uDig app with web start.
The main problem we faced was getting JAI into the application if the user does
not have it installed in his JRE. We found two ways to do this: -
Creating a fragment that contains the JAI JARs and
adding that to the application with net.refractions.udig.libs as the host plugin.
This means that we needed to extract the JARs from the JAI packages. -
Configuring Equinox (OSGi inside Eclipse) to treat JAI
packages as “system packages” which means that they are in
classpath for all plugins. This allows us to use the prebuilt Sun JAI web start
packages. The configuration is in the main .jnlp file. Both ways seem to be working. I think they both allow hardware
acceleration when done right. Now we are wondering if you guys would know some
reason for choosing one of the options for the implementation? Also: would it be valuable if I wrote about Web Starting
uDig apps in the wiki? Thanks, Pirkka |