I've just seen JDK 1.5 rear it's head again - I had thought I should say something before, but I MUST now.
I would be *really* disappointed if geotools started incorporating JDK 1.5 features as I, along, probably, with many others, am unable to run JDK1.5 in my J2EE container. We run Weblogic 7.0 here and have neither the time, nor the budget to migrate to a JDK 1.5 compatible version and this would force us to ignore any other improvements in geotools. Don't get me wrong, I love many of the features in JDK 1.5, it is just that it would cause real problems here. Also, IMHO, the next few versions of Geotools may be better targetted at consolidation of the excellent toolkit developed so far. Documentation needs improving, interfaces and classes need naming so that one does not have many alternatives to choose from when importing a class (Try Geometry or Envelope - which does the uninitiated user use in any given case - I think that it should be the org.opengis only and everything else has a different name). Geotools is a very powerful toolkit, but in many instances, it is not straightforward to find out how to do what you want. Generics and autoboxing are all very well, but will they make it *that* much easier for developers to accomplish their goals? Regards John Grange Senior Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1749 834922 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BlueFinger Limited Underwood Business Park Wookey Hole Road, WELLS. BA5 1AF Tel: +44 (0)1749 834900 Fax: +44 (0)1749 834901 web: www.bluefinger.com Company Reg No: 4209395 Underwood Business Park, Wookey Hole Road, Wells, Somerset BA5 1AF. *** This E-mail contains confidential information for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. You should not use, disclose, distribute or copy this communication if received in error. No binding contract will result from this e-mail until such time as a written document is signed on behalf of the company. BlueFinger Limited cannot accept responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks.*** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Desruisseaux Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:22 PM To: geoapi Cc: Geotools-devel Subject: [Geotools-devel] Re: [Geoapi-devel] Style dis-harmonization Reynolds, Greg a écrit : > I am sensing a push to move to JDK 1.5... I think that GeoAPI interfaces targeting JDK 1.5 would probably be a GeoAPI 3.0 release. In the main time, there is probably some room for a GeoAPI 2.1 release when we will have enough changes in it (I'm targeting March for a GeoAPI 2.1 release, since the next OGC meeting is in March). However, we can experiment JDK 1.5 features right now in the pending directory. Martin. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=ick _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
