[udig-devel] Re: How to add an Oracle Spatial layer?

[Jody Garnett]

Jesse Eichar wrote:
>
> On 9-May-06, at 8:52 PM, John Reid wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks Jesse for fixing the wizard.  I must have looked while the 
>> nightly build was still in progress as the most recent build I could 
>> find was the 3rd May :-(  So I went ahead and after a bit of fiddling 
>> built it from the subversion repository.
>>
>> Anyway, the wizard now works and it looks like I am able to connect 
>> to the database instance, however now I've found what looks like a 
>> new problem.
>>
>> I am unable to select a schema as the "Schema" combo box is 
>> unpopulated and manually entering text into it disables the "next" 
>> button.  Unfortunately I need to be able to add layers from multiple 
>> schemas :-(
>>
>> If I leave the Schema box alone and click on next I end up with an 
>> empty Resource Selection screen.  How does uDig locate tables with a 
>> geometry attribute?  Also, what I really need to do at the moment is 
>> display the results of a select query that returns a geometry 
>> attribute.  In theory is this currently possible?
>>
> The geotools oracle plugin is responsible for determining what table 
> should be used.  I've seen a bunch of emails on the Geotools users 
> list and developers lists about it... But I'm afraid I don't 
> understand many of the issues.
Marc is the module maintainer,
uDig makes use of some of the oracle metadata information (and thus 
expects more from the geotools library then it does right now). For a 
complete status please review this page and then ask questions:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Oracle

Jody