Hi All,

There has been a long standing issue on Geotools regarding osgification -
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2105, may be this can be done in
parallel with migrating the build system to maven 3. I am testing the OSGi
tooling developed for Eclipse -
http://njbartlett.name/2011/03/23/towards-maven-support-in-bndtools.html ,
it makes it easy to generate the XML snippets that plug into the requisite
pom.xml for the modules.

Some of the hand-hacking of the pom.xml's has been done by Harald and the
outputs are available at the following location -
http://hg.berlios.de/repos/geotools-osgi . I would like to take on GEOT-2105
and add the couple of lines of manifest that makes this work, also iron out
the SPI based mechanisms that prevent true osgification using an interceptor
-
http://jbossosgi.blogspot.com/2010/01/suns-serviceloader-and-how-it-relates.html
. The Service loader interceptor will convert the Sun/Oracle
META-INF/services into OSGi ServiceFactories.

Lastly let me take this opportunity to introduce our project (on which we
have had some discussions with Jody - same timezone and such). This is a
CSIRO infrastructure project aimed to develop a 3D desktop visualisation
tool for large NetCDF datasets. We have a lot of in-house expertise in
NetCDF mangling and parsing, as well as producing Gigabytes of it from
Ocean-Atmospheric model runs. The aim is to leverage geotools to access
geographic databases, web services and file based datastores, and combine it
with efficient NetCDF access. The underlying framework will act as a switch
box negotiating data providers to  data renderers, I have a long history
with NASA WorldWind and this is currently our primary renderer. The desktop
tool would be built around an RCP and we may look at Udig for inspiration. I
have circulated the following videos in other circles previously, but they
give an idea of what we are aiming to do, if possible in a nice modular
fashion, such that Lidar data and Hydrology simulations via say
liblas/jgrass can seamlessly reuse the same infrastructure.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15821898/vlc-output_curvy_3d.mp4 - Curvilinear grids
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15821898/vlc-output_winds.mp4 - Atmospheric model
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15821898/vlc-output.mp4 - Ocean model

This leads onto the ideas about CoverageStores in nDimensions such that
non-webmap renderers can use them nicely. That is for another email and
another JIRA issue.

Regards,

Tisham (whatnick)

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