You may wish to talk to John Hudson who did a uDig based project working with TAB files a while back.
John do you have any advice on handling TAB files. I also note there is an example community plugin which uses GDAL to convert a file format to a temporary shapefile for rendering. - http://svn.refractions.net/udig/udig/community/lreed/net.refractions.udig.catalog.mitab/ This required a preference page where the user fills in the path to the command line gdal tools. Jody On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Balint Persics <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a GIS software based on uDIG 1.2 and I have several > questions. > > I need to implement a MapInfo TAB reader since we have a lot of files > in that format. > I set up the following plan: > 0. Use GDAL/OGR Java bindings to read the data. > 1. Implement the TAB reader as a GeoTools Data plugin (implementing > org.geotools.data.FeatureReader etc.) Maybe I will port the > unsupported module from GT 2.4 or implement it form scratch, it is not > decided yet. > 2. Create a uDIG plugin, implementing a catalog service. > > The following questions arose: > 1. I want to try out the new optimized renderer in GT 2.7-SNAPSHOT (I > have files with several hundred megabytes and maybe hundreds of > thousands of features). How to integrate GT 2.7-SNAPSHOT into uDIG > 1.2? Simply replace the jars in net.refractions.udig.libs? > 2. How do I add GDAL Java bindings as a dependency to my GeoTools > module? Can I use GDAL 1.6 binaries downloaded from > http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk? I noticed that GDAL Java bindings are a > great PITA since the API is not backwards compatible between versions > (eg. ogr.Open(String) vs. ogr.Open(String,int). Is there any API docs > for correctly using GDAL Java bindings? > > Thanks for your help, > Balint PERSICS > > -- > Persics Balint > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
