I've just been catching up and reading through some of the docs on the 
uDig site.  Of particular interest was the need for handling large 
raster files, reprojection support and the like.  All of this is already 
done in OSSIM.  Also, Scott Bortman recently used SWIG to generate Java 
bindings (nicknamed jossim).  We were using this to provide WMS services 
directly from OSSIM.  Recently we have been working on packaging for 
Windows, Mac, Linux as well as beginning to generate documentation.  
Scott is out until next week, but it might be productive to see how we 
could tie the two together.
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Mark Lucas
Lead Scientist / Site Manager
Intelligence Data Systems Inc.
1901 S Harbor City Blvd
Melbourne Fl 32901
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