Understood; I echo Andrea's enthusiasm. I do note that we have a dummy placeholder jar in place to allow your module to compile (even when the real oracle jar cannot be distributed to everyone for compiling). You will probably need to extend that dummy placeholder jar with more methods as needed?
Jody On 28/01/2011, at 9:40 PM, Steve Way wrote: > I think first would be good to submit as an unsupported module as per the > current process, then in time ensure maturity if that is ok with everyone? > > I still have a lot to do re: code cleanup, junit tests, setting up maven etc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrea Aime > Sent: 28 January 2011 11:12 > To: Steve Way > Cc: geotools-devel ([email protected]); > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Proposed Oracle Georaster Mosaic Module > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Steve Way > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jody, >> >> Last year I extended Christian's imagemosaic-jdbc module to support >> Oracle Georaster. This however, was quite a dirty implementations and >> had a dependency on about 11 external Oracle java libraries (which, is >> not workable in the opensource world!). >> >> The imagemosiac-jdbc module was then officially extended by the >> community, however, it is limited to only working with the Oracle >> Georaster format if a mosaic has been created in the DB. >> >> What I have created in collaboration with another developer (Baskar >> Dhanapal), and would like to release to the community, is a plugin, >> which is dependant only on one external Oracle Library (the Oracle >> JDBC Driver ojdbc14.jar), and works with the most common GeoRaster >> data model, where there are many raster tiles for a given dataset and >> does not rely on the DBA to create a mosaic within Oracle. An example >> of this would be the Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale raster products, >> where there are 10,585 tiles. To create a mosaic for this is timely, >> high maintenance (as mosaic would need to be re-created even if a few tiles >> were updated) and costly in storage. >> The proposed module would mosaic on the fly, and take out those issues >> mentioned above. >> >> I hope yourself and the community see the benefit to having this >> module, and accept this as a formal request to submit. We will >> definitely be using this in the WMS service we provide to Ordnance >> Survey(GB) in the current Geoserver upgrade to 2.1.0 for INSPIRE compliance >> in the coming months. > > I certainly see the benefit, very interesting indeed. > > So this would be a new community module. > Pushing it to a supported status would require a number of steps: > - get unit testing level above a certain threshold (I think it's 50%, so not > high) > - have a stable maintainer (who will take care of the module in the future?) > - sign the contributor agreement, otherwise we cannot redistribute it > (I actually don't remember if we even accept it as a community module > if you did not sign the contributor agreement) > > I'm looking forward to see this working wit GeoServer :-) > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Ing. Andrea Aime > Technical Lead > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584962313 > fax: +39 0584962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > DISCLAIMER: > > This email may contain confidential information and is intended only for the > use of the specific individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not > the intended recipient of this email, you are hereby notified that any > unauthorized use, dissemination or copying of this email or the information > contained in it or attached to it is strictly prohibited. If you received > this message in error, please immediately notify the sender at Infotech or > [email protected] and delete the original message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
