Andrea Aime wrote:
> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>> Andrea Aime wrote:
>>>> Fair enough Andrea; but this is the third implementation (GeoTools 
>>>> has throw out two already) - the only way I am going to get this 
>>>> documented to your satisfaction is to set uDig and GeoServer up to 
>>>> actually use it - and this is what is happening.
>>> Nope... this is not going to happen until we are satisfied it's good. 
>>> Geoserver at the moment has no catalog usage whatsoever.
>> Then why did Justin put it in? My understanding is your existing data 
>> modules (FeatureTypeInfo etc) have an implementation that implements 
>> these GeoTools interfaces.
> 
> I can see usages of catalog stuff in the data module of geoserver 1.4.x,
> but cannot see anything in geoserver actually using the data module.
> So we're basically not using it? Eclipse tells me stuff like 
> DefaultGeoserverCatalog is used only by unit tests, and the catalog
> interfaces are used a little in the Data class, but seems only
> stored there... it's like an unfinished work.
Yes it is unfinished... changing the rest of the GeoServer over to it 
was a pretty big change, and some issues came up. That coupled with 
changes in the sens project halted the work.
> 
>>> Putting undocumented and untested stuff in main seems like a blitz to 
>>> me, not the proper way to do things in a community of peers.
>> Justin moved quickly; and we were unable to review ourselves (it will be 
>> expensive for us to integrate this into uDig, but we figured since we 
>> could not give him the time of day when he needed it we have to take the 
>> pain).
> 
> You're telling me uDig does not uses it? So it's not unit tested
> nor real world tested???
The lack of unit testing is due to the fact that it is a direct port 
from udig, and since there was no unit tests to port from there ....

There are some docs lying around, but they arent too coherent yet. I 
would say the catalog on geotools is still in a pretty initial stage. I 
am using only for ows4 with Geoserver, and that work is still in a very 
R&D state.
> 
>> All we can do is fix the policy that allowed this situation to occur: 
>> this is the motivation for the "unsupported" module system (ie GeoTools 
>> formally asks for documentation upfront before work is rolled into the 
>> core library).
> 
> Hem... I see no catalog module in unsupported, in fact it's still there
> in main even on trunk...

If it makes people happy I would be happy to move the catalog to the 
unsupported space.

-Justin
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
> 
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