JUMP Description

The Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) is a GUI-based application for viewing and processing spatial data.  It includes many common spatial and GIS functions.  It is also designed to be a highly extensible framework for developing and running custom spatial data processing applications.

• JUMP provides an interactive Workbench for viewing, editing, and processing spatial datasets
• JUMP provides an API giving full programmatic access to all functions, including I/O, feature-based datasets, visualization, and all spatial operations
• JUMP is highly modular and extensible
• JUMP supports important industry standards such as GML and the OpenGIS Consortium spatial object model
• JUMP is written in 100% pure Java^TM
• JUMP is open source

Architecture

The major components of the JUMP architecture are shown in the accompanying figure. On startup, the Workbench loads {@link com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.plugin.Extension extensions} which are JARs that add functionality to the Workbench. This additional functionality may take the form of {@link com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.plugin.PlugIn plugins} (menu items), {@link com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.ui.cursortool.CursorTool cursortools} (toolbar buttons), {@link com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.ui.renderer.Renderer renderers} (ways to draw the data), and {@link com.vividsolutions.jump.io.datasource.DataSource datasources} (ways to load and save various data formats).

Extending JUMP

The following topics cover many of the core activities JUMP developers may face.

• Creating JUMP extensions
• Writing JUMP PlugIns.
  • Writing an ErrorDialog
  • Generating a Warning (warnUser)
  • Undo/Redo
  • EnableCheck
• JUMP Workbench Data Structures
  • Features
  • Layers
  • Blackboards
• Writing JUMP CursorTools
  • Selections in JUMP
• Customizing Layer appearance using JUMP Styles
• Persisting Objects with Java2XML
• Writing Wizards in JUMP

Other Documentation

• JUMP homepage
• JCS homepage
• JTS homepage