ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

BUILDING A COMMAND-LINE JAVA APPLICATION
The ArcGIS developer samples are not included
in the typical installation of the ArcGIS Engine
Developer Kit. If you do not have them installed,
rerun the Developer Kit Install wizard, click
Custom or Modify, and click the samples feature
under Software Developer Kit.
• An installation of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition Software Development
Kit. See http://support.esri.com for information about supported versions
of the J2SE SDK. If you do not already have one available, download it from
the Java Web site at http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.
• A Java IDE of your choice or your favorite text editor.
• An understanding of basic Java programming concepts such as classes, inheritance,
and using packages.
• While no experience with other ESRI software is required, previous experience
with ArcObjects is helpful.
• A TIN dataset.
• Access to the sample data and code that comes with this scenario.
\developerKit\samples\DeveloperKit\samples\
Developer_Guide_Scenarios\Converting_A_Tin_To_Point_ShapefileJava.zip
Objects from the following packages will be used:
• com.esri.arcgis.datasourcesfile • com.esri.arcgis.geometry
• com.esri.arcgis.geodatabase • com.esri.arcgis.system
IMPLEMENTATION
To implement this scenario, follow the steps below. This implementation provides
you with all the code you will need to successfully complete the scenario. It does
not provide step-by-step instructions to develop applications in Java, as it assumes
that you have a working knowledge of the development environment
already.
For cross-platform compatibility, the data and
pathnames used must be lowercased.
Setting up environment variables on Windows
Any Windows user can add, modify, or remove a user environment variable.
Setting such environment variables will make most effective use of this scenario.
You will add three environment variables and their respective executable (bin)
folders to the global PATH variable.
1. Right-click My Computer, then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Click Environment Variables.
4. Under System Variables click New.
For Variable name: type “ARCENGINEHOME”.
For Variable value: type in the root level ArcGIS Engine install directory (for
example, “C:\ArcGIS”).
5. Click OK.
6. Under System variables click Path and click Edit.
7. Append the following to the beginning of Variable value:
%ARCENGINEHOME%\bin;
8. Click OK until you have closed all System Properties dialog boxes.
Repeat the steps above to add the following environment variables:
• JAVA_HOME=J2SE SDK install directory
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