[udig-devel] Server-side uDig

[Aleksander Bandelj]

Thanks. To provide some background, my current work involves using uDig 
as renderer and catalog platform for spatially-enhanced JCR repository. 
uDig will also be used for GIS reporting based on BIRT. Geographical 
maps within BIRT will be analogous to charts (connected to data series 
and sources).

For a first milestone, we'll try reporting from server-side only, so 
that report preview in BIRT is taken from the server. Ultimately, it 
should be possible to e.g. compose a report which would take server-side 
map and join it to local CSV file, so that some buildings on the map 
would be labeled according to this file.

We intend to contribute at least a part of this back to uDig project, 
but we're only started and have no definite plan yet. So far, I'm quite 
happy just to see some shapefiles rendered with uDig within BIRT report ;)

BTW, just make D stand for Distributed and you don't even have to change 
the name :)

Jesse Eichar wrote:
> Good stuff!  I give you 10 point for creativity.  uDig as a servlet 
> does that mean we have to change the name?
>
> Seriously I think this is great.  I will do what I can to support your 
> work.  Any suggestion you have that will make it better for servers 
> please make a JIRA and we will start a thread there.
>
> WRT the dependency/Null pointer issue.  I will comment on the Jira task.
>
> Jesse
>
> On 4-Aug-06, at 12:12 PM, Aleksander Bandelj wrote:
>
>> I think uDig and technologies it builds on constitute a really nice 
>> platform for client and server side GIS, so I started experimenting 
>> with server part. So far, I am able to run uDig rendering headless 
>> inside Eclipse Equinox OSGI container. It requires no modifications 
>> to uDig and is also reasonably easy for those familiar with Eclipse 
>> PDE. You need eclipse 3.2 and plugins from equinox incubator: