I guess you would need to start with the LoadDatasetPlugin.
However, at the wiki there is page that shows how to load a shape file
directly:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jump-pilot/index.php?title=How_to_load_data_from_a_Shape_File_directly
the whole process in itself isn't easy.
OpenJUM
Hello everybody,
after I messed around with some homemade perl an c-code I finally
started to develop plugins with openJump.
But still out of pure curiosity (I'm woring as a university teacher -
that's where my curiosity comes from) I wonder how can Layers be loaded
so fast - It took minutes i