Hey everyone, As preparation for drawing up architectural diagrams of geotools for the pleasure of users like myself, I've been parsing the source code distribution of 2.2.RC2. Some questions arise because there are only three directories which lump together several packages: api (all of which are also defined elsewhere and whose separate purpose makes sense), coverage, and referencing.
Coverage: -------- Coverage seems confounded with imagery which I find confusing since these are completely different ideas in Geospatial science. (Yes, historically the two have often been associated but mostly because of technological limitations not because of a logical dependency). In 2.2.RC2, module/coverage defines classes in three packages: org.geotools.coverage org.geotools.image org.geotools.resources (ignoring lower level, packages org.geotools.something.lowerlevel). Also note that in module/main, the grid stuff is subsumed under coverage module/main/..../data/coverage/grid and there is nothing else in .../data/coverage/ which seems like an unessary imposition on the nature of grids. Couldn't this be data/grid instead? I realise there's a lot of work going on with coverages, and images and whatever else. Is part of this work going to separate out the idea of coverages and the idea of images/grids? If so, could someone point me to what the future directory layout and the package structure might be? module/referencing: ------------------ This is currently a grab-bag of different packages, many related to geospatial measurement and science, some of strictly programming utility (factories, maps (the coding structure)), lots of other stuff. Is there any plan to refactor this into nice, self-coherent pieces? Thanks for any pointers, --adrian ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
