Paul Ramsey wrote:
In case you aren't on the list...
Thanks Paul, I did not have time for advocacy but Paul Uszak does
deserve a reply.
Mr Uszak - I am getting a bit fed up with the pace of things as well,
your feedback is valid.
We have no excuse about the spearfish demo, Martin has not supported it
since we moved to the CRS system. It just wrecks people as an
introduction to what we do do well. But there is a difference and being
frustrated and deleting someone else's code...
The number of deprecations I view as a good thing, it means we are
tracking API changes. The number will drop as 2.2.x goes out and we
have our first cull of old API, and the spearfish demo.
I am sorry your introduction was not smooth, geotools is a spatial
library and not a widget kit for displaying data. For just drawing maps
according to specs (ie SLD) you will find nothing better then geotools -
but that is different then interacting with your data. For a much
better introduction try the uDig list where such things are sorted out
with feedback from our experience in the jump project. You may of also
caught the recent announcement of of the OWS-3 results, our ability to
smoothly integrate with a variety of services is a side effect of good
design.
We are looking at start a geotools user documentation effort but do not
expect to finish until near the end of the calendar year. Please check
back then, we can always use more help. If you want to start small
consider limiting yourself to only the packaged defined by the API
module, there is a difference between the geotools library API and all
the plug-ins that hook into it providing services (the package count
used by geotools applications is much smaller, there is no need to a
ShapefileDatastore directly).
Jody
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Paul Uszak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 14, 2006 4:05:44 PM PST (CA)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [jts-devel] How do YOU draw maps?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], JTS Topology Suite Development
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes, Geotools looks good at first. I would be interested in your
(Chris')
experiences of it.
I tried it for a week and was a little disappointed. I couldn't even
compile
the Spearfish demo code directly off the site. Once I had commented
out some
blocks of code, I then found that the scale on the bottom of the map
went
wonky. It read 6000 miles at one point. I can understand there
being bugs,
and working around them, but having this displayed for a client
(business)
causes some embarrassment.
The main problem though was that it seemed a little complex. The
entire Sun
Java 1.4.2 API has 135 packages. Geotools 2.3 has 223 packages,
including
nearly 800 deprecated items. It blew my mind...
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