Good Afternoon:
> I'm doing a clean install of the uDig development environment.
>
> I've followed the SDK Quickstart guide (almost) to the letter. Started by
> using Eclipse 3.7.1 using dropins-3.7.0.zip but when I tried to run the
> vanilla udig.product it blew up with a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException at
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.
>
I generally only make an SDK when I have a training course to run (it is a
timesaver as we introduce people to uDig plugin development). For general
development we try and involve developers directly in the uDig project
following the instructions to checkout the source code here
(http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/ADMIN/02+Development+Environment).
The "EclipseStarter" error is a generic indication that plugin dependencies are
not correct (so the net.refractions.udig plugin is depending on something that
is not available). This generally happens whoever we upgrade to a new copy of
Eclipse (they change things around and we need to update the plugins we include
in the udig_sdk to arrive at a valid configuration).
I will add this note about "EclipseStarter" to the SDK Quickstart; you can
often temporarily fix it by open the run configuration and hitting add required
plugins. This is how I sort out what plugins are needed (and update the
udig_base feature to list those required plugins).
>
> 1. Is 3.7.1 a viable environment for uDig development, or is 3.6.x
> preferable?
>
>
We try and publish what version of Eclipse each release of uDig is tested with.
I am currently using Eclipse 3.7.0 and have not updated the instructions to use
Eclipse 3.7.1 (even though we have reports of that working).
> I decided that perhaps 3.7 wasn't a good idea, as the SDK Quickstart was
> tested against 3.6, so I installed Eclipse 3.6.2 using dropins-3.6.2.zip. I
> followed the SDK Quickstart to the letter, including respecting the
> direction to put the delta pack into \java\target (i.e. I end up with
> Eclipse in \java\eclipse, the delta pack in \java\target\eclipse, and the
> SDK in \java\target\udig-sdk--is this correct). Then I set up the target
> platform per the directions.
>
>
While we could go over the quickstart instructions and try and untangle version
hell; let me instead extend you an offer :-)
Would you be willing to test a 1.3.0 SDK; we can update the SDK Quickstart
instructions as we go; and then
release the results for others.
I will proceed on this idea; please let me know if you are interested Stephen.
(Sorry for the delay getting back to you I was away at conferences last week).
Jody
_______________________________________________
User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
http://udig.refractions.net
http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
