This uDig release features the advent of new Database connectivity. Thanks to Justin for the jdbc "next generation" plugins; this release allows uDig users to take part in testing.

Installation

• Windows: udig.bat file
• Linux: udig.sh
• Mac: udig application.

On windows and linux uDig includes a Java Runtime so you really can unzip and run. On mac uDig is able to check for Java Advanced Imaging and install if needed.

About uDig 1.2 Milestone 8

This is an incremental release introduction jdbc-ng database access:

This release features:

• jdbc-ng - please help testing PostGIS, Oracle, DB2 etc...
• A great bug fix allowing uDig users to finaly use vendor specific hints for controlling labeling!

• Mac release unable to support the full range of imageio-ext formats (MRSID, ECW, etc...)
• Linux64 release also failed to build imageio-ext and does not support above formats)
• Oracle Database wizard is untested

About uDig 1.2

The uDig 1.2 series highlights a lot really great ideas the developer community has been playing with. We have upgraded the version of the GeoTools library we use - bringing give years of new developments in standard support, and a host of new raster and vector formats. An exciting addition is the use of the ImageIO-ext project allowing the use of raster formats supported by GDAL.

New and experimental capabilities of uDig 1.2 include:

• ImageIO-EXT rendering enabling additional raster formats and working with images larger then memory
• Tiled rendering (as an option in preferences) with a new flicker free panning tool.
• Support for GeoWebCache and TileServer via WMS-C
• WFS 1.1.0 support
• Greatly improved ArcSDE support; multithreaded and faster.