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This page was started by Anusorn Swasdee to help other Geotools novices run the Spearfish demo from the Maps and styles , and get started using Geotools.

Requirements

As listed in the 2.2 Dependencies section of the Developers Guide, to use some parts of the Geotools library, you will need a recent java 2 runtime or SDK (1.4.2) and the following extra:

Running the Spearfish demo

There are currently two ways to run the Spearfish demo:

  1. Use gt2-spearfishdemo.zip
  2. Compile and run the java code yourself
    1. From the command line
    2. Using an IDE like NetBeans

Using gt2-spearfishdemo.zip

The SpearfishSample.class, geotools 2.0rc1 jar files (including gt2-arcgrid.jar) and data, were packaged into a single zip file (gt2-spearfishdemo.zip). This can be downloaded from the attached files on the Map and style tutorial .

On windows and Mac OSX you should be able to run this by unzipping the *.zip file and double-clicking on SpearfishDemo.jar. On linux, (and windows and Mac OSX) the demo can be run from the command line using the following command (from within the unzipped gt2-spearfishdemo directory):

$ java -jar SpearfishDemo.jar

Or

$ java -classpath "SpearfishDemo.jar" org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample

The SpearfishDemo.jar file has a manifest, which tells the java interpreter the class to run and the additional jar files that it needs on the classpath.

Compiling and running the code

The following is a list of files you need to run SpearfishSample.java

  1. geotools-bin-2.0.RC1.zip - the geotools 2.0rc1 release
  2. SpearfishSample.java - the tutorial code
  3. sampleData.zip - data for the tutorial code

Prepare the files

First, unzip geotools-bin-2.0.RC1.zip. For the following discussion, the rc1 zip file was extracted to <some directory>\rc1.

Next place the SpearfishSample.java file in <some directory>\TESTGT2\org\geotools\demo\gui. The org\geotools... directory structure is the java package for the SpearfishSample class.

Then extract sampleData.zip into <some directory>\TESTGT2\org\geotools\sampleData

The SpearfishSample.java file must be modified because gt2-arcgrid.jar was not part of the 2.0rc1 release. Comment out the following lines. The line number is before the //:

14 //import org.geotools.data.arcgrid.ArcGridDataSource;
51 //ArcGridDataSource dsDem = new ArcGridDataSource(demURL);
52 //dsDem.setUseGzipCompression(true);
53 //dsDem.setGRASSFormatEnabled(true);
54 //FeatureCollection fcDem = dsDem.getFeatures();
123 //map.addLayer(fcDem, demStyle);

Compile SpearfishSample.java from the command line

The java interpreter and compiler has a CLASSPATH, which is a list of the directories and jar files where it looks for the *.class files it needs to run a program. This classpath can be set in the CLASSPATH environment variable or passed to the java interpreter with the -classpath flag. See Can you explain CLASSPATH? in the The comp.lang.java FAQ List for more information about the Classpath.

The jar files that you will need on your CLASSPATH are:

  • gt2-main.jar - most of the geotools code
  • geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar - geoapi interfaces implemented by Geotools
  • gt2-shapefile.jar - shapefile support
  • JTS-1.4.jar - geometries (shapefile dependency)
  • units-0.01.jar - another dependancy
  • vecmath-1.3.jar - another dependency (also part of Java 3D 1.3.1 )

These files are in <some directory>\rc1\module, <some directory>\rc1\plugin or <some directory>\rc1\shared and The CLASSPATH environment variable will look like this:

.;<some directory>\rc1\module\gt2-main.jar;
<some directory>\rc1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
<some directory>\rc1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
<some directory>\rc1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
<some directory>\rc1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
<some directory>\rc1\shared\units-0.01.jar

From within <some directory>\TESTGT2 (assuming the 2.0 rc1 release code is in ..\rc1), you can compile SpearfishSample.java with the following command (all on one line):

$ javac -classpath ".;..\rc1\module\gt2-main.jar;
..\rc1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
..\rc1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
..\rc1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
..\rc1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
..\rc1\shared\units-0.01.jar"
 org\geotools\demo\gui\SpearfishSample.java

Note: you will need to replace the ";" classpath separators with ":" and change the "\" to "/" on linux.

This should produce the file: org\geotools\demos\gui\SpearfishSample.class

Run SpearfishSample.java from the command line

Running SpearfishSample.class is similar to compiling it and can be done with the following command (all on one line):

$ java -classpath ".;..\rc1\module\gt2-main.jar;
..\rc1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
..\rc1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
..\rc1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
..\rc1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
..\rc1\shared\units-0.01.jar"
 org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample

Since the ArcGridDataSource is missing, the DEM grid will not be shown.

Compiling and running SpearfishSample from NetBeans

Contributed by Herve Cros

  1. Prepare the files as described above
  2. Create a new NetBeans project (menu Project/Project manager/new)
  3. Mount the following jar files (right click on Filesystem and select Mount/Archive Files (also found under the File menu/ Mount Filesystems...))
    • <some directory>\rc1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
    • <some directory>\rc1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
    • <some directory>\rc1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
    • <some directory>\rc1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
    • <some directory>\rc1\shared\units-0.01.jar"
  4. Mount the directory <some directory>\TESTGT2 (right click on Filesystems and select Mount/Local Directory)
  5. Add the java file to the project (menu windows/Project, then right click on "project" and "Add Existing" then chose the file <some directory>\TESTGT2\org\geotools\demo\gui\SpearfishSample.java
  6. Project menu /Execute Project ... (or use the Execute button on the toolbar). Netbeans should compile and run SpearfishSample, using all the mounted jar files and directories for the classpath.

List of errors

When there are no jar files specified in CLASSPATH

About 70 errors. ( Package ... does not exist. )

When only gt2-main.jar is specified in CLASSPATH

About 14 errors

If gt2-shapefile.jar is missing.

SpearfishSample.java:15: package org.geotools.data.shapefile does not exist
import org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore;

If JTS-1.4.jar is missing

The error appears when running the SpearfishSample.class
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/GeometryFactory

When you forget to include vecmath-1.2.1.jar

The error appears when running the SpearfishSample.class
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/vecmath/MismatchedSizeException

If you don't comment out ArcGridDataSource

About 3 errors
SpearfishSample.java:14: package org.geotools.data.arcgrid does not exist
import org.geotools.data.arcgrid.ArcGridDataSource;

When you forget to install Java Advanced Imaging

The error appears when running the SpearfishSample.class
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/media/jai/EnumeratedParameter

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  1. Aug 16, 2004

    Herve Cros

    I had tested this tutorial on windows and it works very well ! (smile)

    Some precisions to make it run with netbeans :

    1. About Java Advanced Imaging, download and install the JDK installation file (jai-1_1_2-lib-windows-i586-jdk.exe if you are under windows).
    2. Then, create a new netBeans project (menu Project/Project manager/new)
    3. Mount the following jar files (right clic on file filesystem and select mount/archive file)
      <some directory>\rc1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
      <some directory>\rc1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
      <some directory>\rc1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
      <some directory>\rc1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
      <some directory>\rc1\shared\units-0.01.jar"
    4. Mount the directory <some directory>\TESTGT2
    5. Add the java file to the project (menu windows/Project, then right clic on "project" and "Add Existing" then chose the file <some directory>\TESTGT2\org\geotools\demo\gui\SpearFichSample.java
    6. Open the SpearFichSample.java file and comment the following lines
      14 //import org.geotools.data.arcgrid.ArcGridDataSource;
      51 //ArcGridDataSource dsDem = new ArcGridDataSource(demURL);
      52 //dsDem.setUseGzipCompression(true);
      53 //dsDem.setGRASSFormatEnabled(true);
      54 //FeatureCollection fcDem = dsDem.getFeatures();
      123 //map.addLayer(fcDem, demStyle);
    7. Menu Projet/execute project ....

    note : of course, first of all you have to download the files geotools-bin-2.0.RC1.zip, SpearfishSample.java, and sampleData.zip. And to unzip them as describe in this article

  2. Sep 16, 2004

    Anonymous

    I could not compile SpearfishSample.java in windows.

    Reported error were as follows:

    org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample.java 1 cannot resolve symbol
    symbol : class StyleBuilder
    location: package styling
    import org.geotools.styling.StyleBuilder;
    ^
    org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample.java 1 cannot resolve symbol
    symbol : class StyleBuilder
    location: class org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample
    StyleBuilder sb = new StyleBuilder();
    ^
    org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample.java 1 cannot resolve symbol
    symbol : class StyleBuilder
    location: class org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample
    StyleBuilder sb = new StyleBuilder();
    ^
    org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample.java 1 cannot resolve symbol
    symbol : variable StyleBuilder
    location: class org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample
    Mark redCircle = sb.createMark(StyleBuilder.MARK_CIRCLE, Color.RED, Color.BLACK, 0);
    ^
    org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample.java 1 cannot resolve symbol
    symbol : variable StyleBuilder
    location: class org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample
    Mark yellowTri = sb.createMark(StyleBuilder.MARK_TRIANGLE, Color.YELLOW, Color.BLACK, 0);
    ^
    5 errors
    Errors compiling.
    ------------------------------

    Any suggestion to deal with this issue? Thanks.

  3. Sep 20, 2004

    Rueben Schulz

    org.geotools.styling.StyleBuilder appears to be in the 2.0rc1 release. Therefore I would assume this problem is caused by a classpath issue. Check that you have gt2-main.jar on your classpath.

  4. Sep 28, 2004

    anuraag dixit

    The SpearfishSample.java file compiled successfully , but unable to run the file:

    I have my personal computer with Intel P-III 700 Mhz processor and 256 MB ram running Windows XP professional.

    I have installed JDK, j2sdk1.4.2_05 and JAI jai-1_1_2-lib-windows-i586-jdk, JRE for JAI jai-1_1_2-lib-windows-i586-jre.

    On the C: drive I created the folder geoapps
    -> C:\geoapps

    In geoapps folder, I unzipped the file geotools-bin-2.0.RC1.zip in the folder geotools-bin-2.0.RC1
    -> C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\

    than as per your instruction in geoapps folder I created the folders org\geotools\demo\gui and kept SpearfishSample.java
    -> C:\geoapps\org\geotools\demo\gui\SpearfishSample.java

    Than as per your instruction I modify the SpearfishSample.java because gt2-arcgrid.jar was not part of the 2.0rc1 release. I Comment out the following lines. The line number is before the //:

    14 //import org.geotools.data.arcgrid.ArcGridDataSource;
    51 //ArcGridDataSource dsDem = new ArcGridDataSource(demURL);
    52 //dsDem.setUseGzipCompression(true);
    53 //dsDem.setGRASSFormatEnabled(true);
    54 //FeatureCollection fcDem = dsDem.getFeatures();
    123 //map.addLayer(fcDem, demStyle);

    than as per your instrution in C:\geoapps\org\geotools folder I unzipped the sampledata.zip file in the folder sampledata
    -> C:\geoapps\org\geotools\sampledata\

    then i created the environment variable classpath and made the following enteries for that in System Properties:
    .;
    c:\j2sdk1.4.2_05\lib;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\module\gt2-main.jar;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\geoapi-1.1.0alpha.jar;
    C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\units-0.01.jar

    Now when everything has been set, than on the command prompt, I compiled the SpearfishSample.java in the folder C:\geoapps\org\geotools\demo\gui\
    -> C:\geoapps\org\geotools\demo\gui> javac SpearfishSample.java

    It comiled successfully, but when I run the class file it throws following Exception:
    -> C:\geoapps\org\geotools\demo\gui> java SpearfishSample

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SpearfishSample (wron
    g name: org/geotools/demo/gui/SpearfishSample)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

    Now I also downloaded the gt2-spearfishdemo.zip file, I extract this file in C:\test\ folder; now with the same settings as I mentioned above, I run the C:\test\SpearfishDemo.jar and it is running perfectly.

    Please guide me how to run the source code of the application.

    Regards.
    Anuraag Dixit (India)

  5. Sep 29, 2004

    Rueben Schulz

    This is a classic java newbi mistake (I made it a few years ago when I started with java also).

    Java looks for classes on the classpath and the current directory (it is best to make sure '.' is also on the CLASSPATH so that java will search the current directory for class files).

    Now, the short answer to your problem is you should be in the C:\geoapps directory and run the command:

    > java org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample

    The org.geotools.demo.gui part is the package for the class which is part of the full class name for SpearfishSample. Java looks in the current directory (C:\geoapps) and finds org\geotools\... which is the beginning of the class name. So again, C:\geoapps needs to be on your classpath or you need to execute the java command from here so it places the current directory ('.') on the classpath.

    When you ran java in C:\geoapps\org\geotools\demo\gui, java looked for org.geotools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample here. It could not find it since only SpearfishSample is in this directory.

    Also note that the use of the CLASSPATH environment variable is not the favoured method to run this (you end up having to resetting it for every different java program you use). A better method is to pass the classpath to java when you call it. For example use:

    > java -classpath ".; my; classpath;" some.class.file

    To save yourself some typing, you can place the above command in a batch file (*.bat) and execute that (or use ant, maven, eclipse, netbeans, etc).

  6. Sep 30, 2004

    anuraag dixit

    first of all i thank you for responding back instatly , but sorry to tell you that i still unable to run the application this time it has thrown different exception:
    i run the application in c:\geoapps folder:
    C:\geoapps>java -classpath ".;c:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\lib;C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.R
    C1\module\gt2-main.jar;C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shap
    efile.jar;C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;C:\geoapps\geotools
    -bin-2.0.RC1\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\geoap
    i-1.1.0alpha.jar;C:\geoapps\geotools-bin-2.0.RC1\shared\units-0.01.jar" org.geot
    ools.demo.gui.SpearfishSample
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/geotools/
    styling/Symbolizer (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

  7. Sep 30, 2004

    Rueben Schulz

    Unfortunately, the only thing I can think of is that the c:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\lib; on your classpath is unnecessary.

    A google for this error indicates that it may be a problem with the released jars being built for a newer jvm than you are using. If you cannot solve this, try posting this question to the geotools user email list (you will get more responses there).

  8. Nov 26, 2004

    Anonymous

    D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\bin\javaw -classpath "D:\tools\opengis\gt2demo\SpearfishPostGIS\classes;D:\gthome\plugin\postgis\gt2-postgis.jar;D:\gthome\plugin\shapefile\gt2-shapefile.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-bridge-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-css-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-dom-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-gvt-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-rasterizer-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-svg-dom-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-transcoder-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\batik-xml-1.5.jar;D:\gthome\shared\geoapi-20041011.jar;D:\gthome\shared\JTS-1.4.jar;D:\gthome\shared\mailapi-1.3.jar;D:\gthome\shared\mockrunner-0.2.jar;D:\gthome\shared\opengis-legacy-0.1.jar;D:\gthome\shared\units-0.01.jar;D:\gthome\shared\vecmath-1.3.jar;D:\gthome\module\gt2-main.jar;D:\gthome\plugin\postgis\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;D:\gthome\plugin\postgis\lib\postgis-driver-1.0.jar;D:\gthome\plugin\postgis\lib\wkb4j-1.0-RC1.jar;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0-beta2-dev3\jdbc\pg74.215.jdbc3.jar;D:\gthome\extension\graph\gt2-graph.jar;D:\gthome\extension\validation\gt2-validation.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\demo\jfc\Java2D\Java2Demo.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\demo\plugin\jfc\Java2D\Java2Demo.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\charsets.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\ext\ldapsec.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\im\indicim.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\jaws.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\jce.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\jsse.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\rt.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\lib\dt.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\lib\htmlconverter.jar;D:\JBuilder9\jdk1.4\lib\tools.jar" spearfishpostgis.postgistestconn
    java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:2933)
    at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:565)
    at org.geotools.data.jdbc.JDBCDataStore.getNameSpace(JDBCDataStore.java:1211)
    at org.geotools.data.jdbc.JDBCDataStore.buildSchema(JDBCDataStore.java:1048)
    at org.geotools.data.jdbc.FeatureTypeHandler.getFeatureTypeInfo(FeatureTypeHandler.java:200)
    at org.geotools.data.jdbc.FeatureTypeHandler.getSchema(FeatureTypeHandler.java:168)
    at org.geotools.data.jdbc.JDBCDataStore.getSchema(JDBCDataStore.java:322)
    at org.geotools.data.postgis.PostgisDataStore.getFeatureSource(PostgisDataStore.java:994)
    at spearfishpostgis.postgistestconn.main(postgistestconn.java:43)

  9. Dec 07, 2004

    Tom Sapienza

    When is the Arc Grid stuff going to be added back into the development tree? Has some other package rendered it obsolete? I have a need for displaying DEM files, but I'm new at all this and I'm not sure what to do about it right now.

  10. Dec 13, 2004

    Rueben Schulz

    ArcGridDataSource was replaced by the new GridCoverageExchange implementation. SpearfishSample in the svn (DNS issues right now) demo directory uses the new code. This should be in the upcomming 2.1 release.

  11. Mar 01, 2006

    Edward Smith

    I can't download the java source or the data zip file, did the files get removed or moved?