Hello all
Project Panama (the successor of JNI) became final in Java 22. This is
useful for reading or writing some data formats. However, we cannot use
Panama in Apache SIS yet since SIS targets Java 11. But there is a way
to conciliate the two. SIS is made of 3 groups of module:
* "endorsed": includes metadata, referencing, features, coverage,
GeoTIFF, etc. Those modules are part of SIS releases and target Java 11.
* "incubator": includes Shapefile, Coverage-JSON, CQL, etc. Those
modules are not part of SIS releases yet.
* "optional": includes JavaFX application because of its LGPL dependency.
While the "endorsed" and "incubator" groups of modules target Java 11,
the "optional" group of modules already targets Java 16 because this is
the oldest version providing a functionality that was needed for the
JavaFX application. I propose to do a similar upgrade to the "incubator"
group of modules. Those modules would require Java 22. Note that this
upgrade has no incidence on the "endorsed" group of modules, which would
continue to target Java 11. In particular, the referencing, features,
coverages and GeoTIFF services would continue to be on Java 11.
Is there any comment or objection?
Martin
