Hello Joe
Le 06/12/12 22:58, Joe White a écrit :
is there a movement afoot to put a new standard in place for units handling?
The tone of your reply leads me to believe that there isn't anything
particularly imminent, and my own (admittedly paltry) research leads me back to
the same choice you posed in the original email on this thread.
My current understanding is that they will be no more JSR dedicated to
units. However since units is used in many fields, I think it was just a
matter of time before some JSR got a need for units of measurement. It
seems to be the case for a JSR about sensors which may start in 2013. So
a units API may be defined as a side effect of such sensor JSR. However
if this thing happen, I don't know if it would be possible to extract
the units API out of the sensor API as an independent module, and if it
would be generic enough.
what do you see as the trade-offs between a JSR 275 style interface and that of
org.unitsofmeasurement?
The API is close to identical. But JSR-275 was implementation classes,
while org.unitsofmeasurement defines only interfaces. Apart from that,
the main difference is the change in package name. This is a trivial
issue for an open source project. But on this very particular topic, I'm
actually worrying about GeoAPI since I don't think it is a serious issue
for SIS...
Regards,
Martin
