Hey Martin,

If no one beats me to this by mid next week I'll take care of it.

Cheers,
Chris

On Nov 25, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I started to port more metadata classes on my local machine, but I'm still 
> hitting dependencies. Yesterday I have hit the first dependency having a 
> (minor) licensing issue. To be legally safe, I think it would be preferable 
> to have a volunteer for providing an initial commit of the class described 
> below. I only need the initial commit; from that point all subsequent commits 
> were our own. A volunteer could commit that on trunk, JDK6 or JDK7 branch at 
> his convenience.
> 
> I would like a Range class in the following location:
> 
>    sis-utility/src/main/java/org/apache/sis/measure/Range.java
> 
> The API of this Range class would be almost identical the the Java Advanced 
> Imaging Range class. In fact, this Range class has been added in old GeoTools 
> time in replacement to the JAI one, in order to reduce JAI dependency:
> 
> http://download.java.net/media/jai/javadoc/1.1.3/jai-apidocs/javax/media/jai/util/Range.html
> 
> However the initial commit doesn't need to be a fully functional Range 
> implementation. In particular, I suggest to omit isEmpty(), subtract, equals, 
> hashCode and toString methods since we already have material for those 
> methods that we can merge after the initial commit. Javadoc can also be 
> omitted except for one or two class introduction sentences.
> 
> I have wrote in more details what need to be done there:
> 
>    https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sis/ip-review/Range.xhtml
> 
> Click on the last link ("Range implementation hooked up") - one can see a 
> more detailed description of what needs to be done. Peoples considering to 
> volunteer should probably not read past the blue line with the "Revision 
> 29950" title in it.
> 
> We would also need a JUnit RangeTest class, to be written from scratch...
> 
>    Regards,
> 
>        Martin
> 

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