[udig-devel] Re: uDig WMC support

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:

> Thanks for the info.
>
> I agreee that WMC can't store non-WMS stuff for now (stay tuned, it's on the way).
Any idea when? ie will it appear over the course of our production timeline?

I will be interested to see how flexable the format is, our major 
chalange with respect to this has been allowing Renderers to externalize 
there Style information. SLD renderers are "easy" since SLD beans and a 
parser exist for geotools. But not all renderers are going to be 
squeezed into the SLD box.

> Are there any requirements for saving loading views?  And the format of such a 'project'?  If yes, I'm guessing you're using XML to save state, in which case adding a WMC exporter won't be much trouble.
>  
Yes we need to save views.  We actually load and save "udig projects" 
which contain multiple Maps and/or Pages. A Map is a View in arcview 
speak, or a Task in Jump speak, A Page is something you can print 
(layout in arcview speak?).

> If this is the case, I'll gladly write the Java WMC exporter based on the framework you deploy.
>  
Thanks - that would be great!

My Design ideas so far: either walk the in memory object model or do 
XLSLT processing the generated XML.for a Map.

My major focus for the next 0.3 release is the production of a draft 
developers guide - that is enough documentation to make these kind of 
extentions easy to write.

Jody