Hi,
I'm writing this mail following a request to have date and time
properly both read and write wise in the geotools XML parsers.
At the moment we have the following situation:
* old GML2 parser/encoder, it's able to encode date and times
properly, but does not take into account time zone.
Parsing is completely broken, we could use DateUtil for
the parsing but it would accept only a subset of the
acceptable date time expressions anyway (and disregard
again the timezone)
* new GML2 and GML3 parsers are ok both direction, but they
are using JAXB for it. To be more clear, they are adding
a 1MB+ dependency just to use the DatatypeConverter class
and its few dependency.
I looked around and found out the jaxme project, and open
source implementation of the JAXB library under the Apache
license, and extracted a working DatatypeConverter which
you can download here (it's a standalone eclipse project
for the moment): http://geo.openplans.org/aaime/jaxme-converter.zip
Now, it would be nice to use this one from the size point
of view, there are a few drawbacks thought:
* license. Can we mix this sources into the main module?
Or in its own standalone module?
* after extraction we are on our own, we don't get anymore
bugfixes just by upgrading to the lastest implementation.
So, I would like to hear your opinion. What shall we
do about this? The alternatives I see are:
* say bye bye to the old GML2 module inside main, it's not fully
working, and keep the big dependency on the new modules
* create a new module with the attached file, handling
license issues, and change both to use this new converter
I also heard that java6 has jaxb included, but this is
not a solution, since we're years away from adopting java6
as the base.
Any other suggestion?
Cheers
Andrea
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