Hello,
We would like to start a discussion around JNI. As you have seen in the past months some work has be done on GDAL. This work is great and can be useful to handle more raster formats, but the problem is that GeoTools is getting tightly linked to those JNI classes. It seem's that the approach choosed here to bind this work to GeoTools could introduce some problems in the future and it could be really useful to avoid tight dependency on it - unnecessary jars for those who don't need the GDAL plugins. - community work outside org.geotools package namespace - community work on external svn - additional barrier for GeoTools community to work on those modules We ring the bell today because we have found that the render module has a dependency on an unsupported module which uses this JNI work We feel concerned because render is in the library module, which means it is official and supported. Besides, using JNI reduce geotools portability which is the main purpose and the main reason why we use Java. How can we solve this ? Probably in moving JNI related classes outside GeoTools and keep it in it's native project ImageIO-Ext on java.net. After all it is an extension that as be clearly envisioned as an independent project, so it should not be part of geotools trunk. Renderer should be designed in such a way that external projects should be able to plugin extensions by overriding carefully designed methods. We raise this issue because we are working as you know on a new Java2D renderer. This one depends on the render module but not on imageio-ext. We believe there is a need to create a render module independent so that multiple renderers may use it. Regards -- Johann Sorel Company - Geomatys GIS Developer Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
