Notes on the GeoServer Workshop

These are the notes I took on the GeoServer workshop at the last gvSIG Conference. Data Directory It is important to change the settings of the geoserver_data_dir in the web.xml file to keep the data each time you restart the application container (like Tomcat). It is also good to check out the other settings as it contains interesting facts such as the type of projections to be used or the size of the cache. There are configurable data on the fly and data not configurable on the fly. ...

March 2, 2012 · 2 min · delawen

Notes of the gvSIG 2.0 workshop

This are the notes that I took over gvSIG 2.0 on the latests Jornadas GvSIG. Pre-requisites Java Eclipse Ant (should) Maven (should) gvSIG (this is recursive :)) The main advantage of gvSIG 2.0 is that you can create a new plugin without knowing how does gvSIG work or having to compile it. We already have a gvSIG installation that deploys the binaries to the workspace. But we don’t have to change the source code. Unless, of course, something doesn’t work (bugs) or we have to add some new functionality to the core. Better if you don’t touch it, ask the developers and they will take care. ...

February 8, 2012 · 4 min · delawen

How to compile gvSIG 2.0

I am proud to share with you the steps to compile gvSIG 2.0, which I discovered thanks to some fellows developers, whom I met thanks to the latests Jornadas GvSIG. Although you can find a full guide on the official documentation, this simple steps will let you customize and compile your own gvSIG2.0 version without much trouble. First, you have to install some basic dependencies: #apt-get install maven2 subversion Next, we create a folder in which we can work: ...

January 8, 2012 · 2 min · delawen