[josm-dev] An Introcudtion

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I'm getting started as an Open Street Map contributor. I have mostly
questions at this point, but I've been reading on the OSM Wiki and
other sources of information on-line.

I'm an open source Java programmer, so I was (of course) most
interested in JOSM. I downloaded the program yesterday and gave it a
trial run. It seems to work pretty slick.

Most of my Java programming work is done as a volunteer for OpenJUMP,
which is also a mapping/GIS program. I would imagine JOSM and OpenJUMP
share a lot of the same functionality. I would like to tentatively
offer my support for the development of JOSM, as I plan on using it as
my principle software tool for OSM contributions.

This brings me to my first couple JOSM questions:

[1] Is there a developer's guide avialable? What about other
programmer documentation or tutorials?
[2] Can the Javadoc for JOSM be accessed online?
[3] It looks like JOSM can be extended with plug-ins. Where do I learn
more about creating a plug-in?

I'd also like to learn if JOSM programmers think there would be any
opportunities to share code with OpenJUMP, or to port OpenJUMP
functionality to JOSM.

I look forward to learning more about how I might contribute to JOSM
development.

The Sunburned Surveyor