1 Getting Started

Welcome to uDig application development; this section will walk you through setting up a development environment, the creation of a simple plugin, and packaging up your own GIS application as an executable for others

• 1 SDK Quickstart — quickly set up a development environment for working on your own plug-ins
• 2 Plugin Tutorial — create a new plug-in that adds a distance tool
• 3 Custom Application Tutorial — make your own custom application
• 4 Workbench Tutorial — watch the workbench selection and use IAdatable
• 5 GIS Platform Tutorials — catalog and data access
• 6 GIS Application Tutorials — map, layers and tools
• 7 Disk to Screen Tutorials — putting the peices together and see how it all works
• Other Tutorials — aspects of uDig development (advanced)
• RCP Tutorials — integration of uDig with existing RCP applications
• Welcome New Eclipse RCP Developers

2 Programmer's Guide

Background information and guidelines for working in the uDig environment.

• 1 Welcome to the Programmer's Guide
• 2 Why a platform
• 3 Platform Architecture
• 4 Guidelines and Rules

4 Working with Eclipse RCP

Tips, tricks and utility classes for working with the Eclipse RCP platform.

• 00 Working with Plugins
• 01 Working With Features
• 02 Making a Branding Plugin
• 03 Making a Product and Executable
• 04 Using UDIGApplication
• 06 Traditional Menus using Actions and ActionSets
• 07 New Menus based on Commands, Handlers and Key Bindings
• 09 uDig menus using Operations and Tools
• 10 Adding History to Dialogs and Wizards
• 11 Working with SWT and JFace
• 12 Working with Extension Points
• 13 Testing
• 14 Bundle a JAR up as a Plugin
• 15 How to turn stuff off
• How do I turn off menus
• Using the UDIGWorkbenchAdvisor
• Using UDIGMenuBuilder
• Using WorkbenchConfigurations
• Working with Cheat Sheets

5 Working with the GIS Platform

Using the local catalog as a repository to manage your spatial data

• 1 GIS Platform
• 10 Service and GeoResource Interceptors
• 11 Workbench Services
• 2 Catalog
• 3 Tracking Changes
• 4 Drag and Drop
• 5 Operations
• 6 How to add a New Kind of DataStore
• 7 GISPlatform Utility Classes
• 9 How to Ensure a Server exists on Startup

6 Working with GIS Application

Using Maps, Layers and pages to visualize your spatial data

• 01 GIS Application
• 02 Project Map and Layer
• 03 GeoSelectionService
• 04 Commands
• 05 Style
• 06 Tools
• 07 Edit Tools
• 08 Operations
• 09 Renderers
• 10 Interceptors
• 11 Adding new Format
• 12 Map Decorator

7 Printing

Examples

The uDig code base contains code examples used in this Developers Guide and the uDig Training Course.

• 1 Code Examples
• 2 Training Materials
• 3 Edit Tool Example
• 4 Export SLD Plugin Tutorial

FAQ

• Community Questions
• Developer Questions
• Development Questions
• Eclipse RCP Questions
• GIS Application Questions

Reference

• 1 Javadocs
• 2 Extension Point Reference
• 4 Other Reference Information
• 5 Reading List
• 6 Dependencies
• 7 Debugging Tips

Welcome to the uDig Developer's Guide. This guide is intended to help developers who want to customize and build on top of the uDig core. uDig can be extended by adding standard Eclipse plug-ins which work against either Eclipse or uDig extension points. Developers define their own applications which combine existing and possibly new plug-ins.

• Programmer's Guide (Eclipse 3.4 Help)
• Programmer's Guide (Eclipse 3.3 Help)
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/
• Rich Client Platform (wiki.eclipse.org)
• User Interface Guidelines (wiki.eclipse.org)
• Eclipse Search

If you are looking for help on eclipse concepts please do not start with google! You will have more luck looking in the Eclipse Help menu because the contents match the copy of eclipse you are using today.