Documentation for Users

These documents are appropriate for people who are using the uDig application to manipulate geospatial data. The documents explain how to install uDig, how to run the application, and how to use the application itself.

Guides that work through a particular process

• Walkthrough 1 - Installing and Using uDig
• Walkthrough 2 - Installing GeoServer and Editing with uDig

The online help

The uDig application has a help menu which provides access to documentation from within the application itself. This information is reproduced here for each of the different languages in which the manuals have been translated.

Note that editing those pages will alter the help provided in the next release. The contents of these pages is used for uDig online and context sensitive help. Consider the above pages as source code as well as being reference material.

Documentation for developers of derived applications

This documentation targets developers who are using uDig as a platform with which to create their own applications. Unfortunately, the documentation is incomplete but there are some resources to help developers get started.

Because uDig is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), most development of third party applications is performed by creating new "plug-ins" which link to the uDig platform by implementing "extension points". This language is deeply tied to the RCP and the Eclipse web site is a useful place to look for documentation. If you are new to Eclipse RCP development we have assembled a 5 Reading List.

To start using uDig, the SDK Quickstart document provides a concise explanation of how to obtain the necessary applications and code to get started. A more detailled verion of this is provided in the Getting Started section of the developers' guide.

The Developers Guide will hopefully become the fundamental reference for developers working with uDig. It is apparently also available as an Eclipse plugin but there is no current indication for how this is done.

Other reference material includes:

• The API reference Javadocs
• The list of Extention Points

There are many plugins for the Eclipse Integrated Developement Environment which could be useful for developers, and several are listed [here]

Documentation for developers of uDig itself

This documentation is targeted at developers wishing to work directly on the code of the uDig project itself.

The Procedures guide presents the policies and procedures of the uDig project.

The [Project Quickstart] provides a concise outline of the steps needed to obtain a new copy of the uDig source code, to setup a Java language environment to run the code, and to configure the Eclipse IDE to work on the code.

Anyone wishing to add new translations of uDig should read the translation guide.

GeoConnection Project

We would like to acknowledge the financial contributions of GeoConnections towards this project.

• GeoConnections Project
• Milestone 1
• Milestone 2
• Milestone 3
• Milestone 4
• Final Report

Information

Press Release
Summary
Poster
Brochure

Whitepapers

Open Source GML Parsing

Requirements

Requirements Document
UI & Framework Recomendations
Workflow Recomendations
Usability Recomendations
WFS Client Design
WFS Client Test Plan

Research and Development

UDIG Platform Research
Printing Technologies
Rendering Technologies
Web Registry Service Research
Data Access Guide