I've spent some time wrapping up a little project to strip OpenJUMP down to its bare bones. The result is a very simple and pluggable program with a Swing GUI. It is so simple that you can't really call it a "rich client platform". It is more like a "modest client platform".
My goal with this little project was to take the best parts of OpenJUMP and move them to a platform that I could use to quickly write other graphical tools and utilities. (I didn't want to mess with Eclipse or Netbeans RCP for this, because they were too complex for my needs and would take to much time to learn.) I'm calling this little project the Simple Pluggable Swing Program, or SPSP for short. It is basically the OpenJUMP plug-in framework with some tweaks, wrapped in a Swing shell that features a dockable/tabbed window framework. The current version also has some experimental systems integration testing code in it. To build an application on top of SPSP you just write your plug-in (which in most cases would add a tab to the main GUI) and drop the plug-in jar in the lib/ext directory of the SPSP installation folder. (If your plug-in depends on third party libraries, you need to add it to the class path.) This is very similar to how plug-ins are intstalled with OpenJUMP. The whole installation folder zipped up (including the docking windows framework library) is only 700 KB. In the next release I hope to allow the plug-in programmer to add a splash screen image and change the name of the main JFrame title bar with no need to recompile source code. I also hope to test the menu system. (Plug-ins can add menu items.) You can find the source code on the SurveyOS Project SVN: http://surveyos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/surveyos/java/simple_pluggable_swing_program/ The code still needs some clean-up and javadoc comments. :] You can download the distro here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/surveyos/files/ You want the SPSP.zip file. To execute the distro you need to double click the batch file in the lib folder. (This batch file will get moved to the exe folder at some point.) Please note that this is a very buggy, unstable release, and it has only been tested on Windows XP. (I will support the program on Linux at some point.) I hope to bolt a simple feature metadata manager on top of the platform soon, so at least you guys can see how to build on top of it. I will also ultimately try to move improvements to SPSP back into the OpenJUMP code base. This will include some improvements to the plug-in system, a cleaner separation of the GUI from the rest of the core, and possibly some system integration testing. I will NOT be trying to integrate the docking framwork, since that was already discussed and voted down. Of course, I will run all of my changes by this list for discussion before commiting anything. (I'm not sure how many people are still listening, but maybe a few are.) :] I hope some of you can use SPSP for your own tools. If you are used to writing OpenJUMP plug-ins, you should like SPSP. :] The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
