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<chapter id="index">
<section id="intro">
<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 id="design">
<title>Design</title>
<figure>
<title>Geotools Logo</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="images/developersguide/geotools_logo.png"
format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>Geotools Logo</phrase></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<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 id="development">
<title>Development</title>
<section id="building">
<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
&#34;howto-build.html&#34; doc into here</para></listitem><listitem><para></para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</section>
<section id="cvs">
<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 id="CodingStandards">
<title>Coding Standards</title>
<para>To do:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Using Sun&#39;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 id="templates">
<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 id="logging">
<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 id="testing">
<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 id="tools">
<title>Development Tools</title>
<section id="netbeans">
<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>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>