Re: [udig-devel] Feature Dependencies, Update Site

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like fun;

One of the things we have considered is joining the eclipse labs program they recently set up; is this the kind of thing you would be interested in?

You are correct that we only have a community update site and not an update site for the project as a whole; that would be something to look at after 1.2.0 goes out.

There are a few "non" net.refractions plugins included in our source code (cases where we have bundled up a jar we use). I expect you are missing one of them.

Jody

On 15/07/2010, at 8:10 AM, Miles Parker wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> First, thanks for a great effort. It's great to see such a powerful, flexible GIS solution w/in Eclipse. I actually think one of the greatest values of  uDig like any other tool would be in integration with other tools -- the Eclipse ecosystem has many other features can be mixed and matched to create totally novel applications. To that end, I'm looking into integrating uDig with the Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform (http://eclipse.org/amp) and was looking for some guidance on that. I've saw the post related to this on the archives "integrating the map viewer as plug-in in own RCP app" but there doesn't seem to be recent activity on that. So some (hopefully) basic questions..forgive me in advance if I missed something on the site or am asking a bunch of already addressed questions in which case please just point me to the right spot.
> 
> Use case: My first goal is to get a simple viewer (or editor, but I'd prefer Viewer) up that would just read in a shape file programmatically, display them, make some changes to some of the layers and update it.
> 
> First, I wanted to see if I could install all of the basic features and plugins into my own IDE so that I could use that as the basis for building a sample application. It seems that the update site isn't an update site for the entire uDig distro but for plugins *for* uDig, right? Next, I couldn't find a download that just had the udig components, so I tried the SDK download. I already have (I think) all of the dependencies in my IDE so I got rid of everything that wasn't "net.r.." and just put them into dropins. Nothing shows up except for the source features -- not even the plugins. I don't get any dependency errors reported which is weird, but not *that* weird as the dropins mechanism has always been pretty flaky. The only other thing I can think is that perhaps there are native dependencies?
> 
> So...before I go any further with this, I thought it would make sense to see if my basic use case is reasonable. And if so, what set of features and/or plugins should be included. Or again, perhaps such a thing already exists and I've just missed something. If I can figure out what basic dependencies are needed I could probably even build a p2 site for it -- god knows I've set up enough of those.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Miles
> 
> p.s. I'm "just" over in Nelson..let me know if you ever find yourselves out in the Kootenay..
> 
> Miles Parker
> 
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