Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > The factory would not make any difference for JAXB. It may enable the usage > of > gt-xml module however; I don't know yet. > > If JAXB on Java 5 is too much a problem, the proposal is to remove it from > the > Java 5 branch and move our (at Geomatys) development to a Java 6 branch, > while > keeping a merging process to the Java 5 branch for the compatible parts. The > proposal is not to upgrate the GeoTools project as a whole to Java 6. This > proposal is applicable only if merging process in modern tools (SVN 1.5 or > Mercurial) are good enough for making this approach supportable. This is what > we > plan to experiment in the next few months. > I am worried about the direction you are going Martin; it is one thing to have problems with the library moving too slow for Java 6. It is another to start looking at tech so you can work on your own private branch and not have to interact with the community. Right now the community is waiting on you for a backlog of referencing work; you can stand to wait for us to make use of Java 6.
If jaxb is a technical direction you decided on for your own project - go for it. Waiting for GeoTools should of been part of your risk planning right? The GeoTools library has our own mandiate and right now it includes a parser that can handle a range of standards. Treat GeoTools like any other project if you need to do some long term planning do some long term planning in the IRC meetings and in public. Still for today I am looking at trunk broken on a day when I need it to work in public. Eclipse has identified that a testMetadataAnnotations() method is not going to be able to run since it lacks an XMLStreamWriter class. What has changed since last week to make this a problem for me today? Please understand I am stressed out because of something that changed in your module; hours before I need it to work. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
