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    Geotools2 Developer Guide</title><date>                         22 May 2002</date></articleinfo>
    <section><title>Introduction</title>

    <para>This document aims to help new geotools developers get up to speed
    and track practices of existing developers in order to keep the project
    consistent.</para>

    <para>If you feel something is missing, feel free to contribute a new
    section.</para>
  

  
    </section><section><title>Design</title>
    
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    <para>To do: Explain</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Key design structure
    (core interfaces, data sources, rendering, tools)</para></listitem><listitem><para>Design
    Drivers (Our design goals: modular, derives structure from netbeans,
    support multiple version of java, ..)</para></listitem><listitem><para>Directory
    structure</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
  

  
    </section><section><title>Development</title>

    
      <section><title>Building</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>using ant</para></listitem><listitem><para>what
      ant checks</para></listitem><listitem><para>insert the
      &quot;howto-build.html&quot; doc into here</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Code Versioning (using CVS)</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Point to sourceforge CVS howto
      links.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Also point to some HOWTOs for
      windows users.</para></listitem><listitem><para>What is acceptable to
      commit to CVS, what is not. (Ie, code should compile)</para></listitem><listitem><para>Talk
      about version numbering convention, use of branches, etc (if we decide
      to do this).</para></listitem></itemizedlist>

      <para>To do:</para>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Coding Standards</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Using Sun&apos;s coding
      standard, need to note any exceptions to it.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Note
      the auto checking of coding standards.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Javadocs</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Template File</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Provide a template file.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Link
      it to sections explaining the different parts of the template.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Include
      headers, footers, example logging, example coding style, CVS key tags,
      sample javadocs.</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Logging</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Talk about log4j, links to</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Testing</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Explain use of junit. Might be
      a link to another web site.</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    

    
      </section><section><title>Documentation</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Talk about docbook, why we
      decided to use it (most commonly used format of LDP, converts to
      multiple formats, tools coming which can support it. Need to mention
      which version of docbook we are using.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Mention
      tools that can be used.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Links to
      docbook references.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Process for
      updating this document.</para></listitem><listitem><para>How to use ant
      tools to build doc.</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    
  

  
    </section></section><section><title>Development Tools</title>

    
      <section><title>Netbeans</title>

      <para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Where to get it.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Aim
      is to make geotools a module within Netbeans</para></listitem><listitem><para>How
      to setup getools to fit the multiple directory structure</para></listitem><listitem><para>The
      extra Netbeans modules that are useful and should be downloaded.</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    
  
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