[udig-devel] Application with out project

[Jody Garnett]

suneesh kumar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am about to start a GIS application for cadastral map. I have been 
> using Geotools 2 for the earlier version of the application. The 
> StyledMapPane was wonderful. It's no more there with Geotools 2.3 . So 
> I would like to use uDig for my application.
The StyledMapPane died for lack of a volunteer :-( It is however still 
there in mutated form - it is called JMapPane and it is an unsupported 
module. All this really represents is us no longer throwing away code 
when we don't have a volunteer for it.  If you want to try it out you 
are more than welcome - the geotools-users list is the place to go to 
swap horror stories and patches. From looking at it I guess it needs a 
solid week of work - but with no time these things get dropped.

uDig is a *much* better choice! StyledMapPane was only intended as an 
example of how to wire things up; for uDig we have a much better system 
that can handle WMS as well as raster and vector layers.
> I am some what new to RCP development. I just want to utilize the Map 
> editor of uDig. My application is simple and it wont have any project 
> as in uDig platform.
The MapEditor cannot really be seperated from RCP (we use a lot of their 
tricks for toolbars and selection).  In the past people have added hooks 
into map creation (to add a fixed set of layers), set up a custom 
perspective that only shows one map, etc...
> I would like to know what will be the best starting point for this 
> application. Can I use the editor part as such or should I customize 
> it so that it won't have reference to projects. I am waiting for your 
> valuable suggestions.
I would simply not show the Projects view; and have your application set 
up a Project behind the scene.

Jody