While the JAXB annotations worked well for Maven and NetBeans, it seems to be a
cause of problems with Eclipse. Maybe there is other platforms where similar
problems popup. Since we can not experiment all of them, I came to the feeling
that it would be easier to:
* Create and maintain a GeoTools branch targeting Java 6.
* Remove completly JAXB annotations from the Java 5 branch.
The Java 6 branch could (maybe) be the development branch (trunk), and some
merges would be performed automatically to the Java 5 branch.
Merging branches were used to be a pain, but things are improving on two sides:
* SVN 1.5 has improved merging support. Not sure yet if it is up to the task
for what I would like to do, but may worth a try. The prerequite would be
to either upgrate Refraction server to SVN 1.5, or move to an other server.
* This kind of merge is exactly the kind of things distributed version
systems are supposed to be good at. We are setting up Mercurial mirrors
on our side for experimenting that kind of stuff.
So in short, we are slowly experimenting solutions for maintaining a Java 6
branch of GeoTools without the pain of merges. Not sure yet what will be the
result. We will let you know the result of our experiments.
Martin
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