Hi Tisham:
In the past the OSGi efforts have stalled out as it is hard for the community
to focus on a problem
that is not shared (or "quick" to understand).
Do we have to tackle this as a single proposal, or can we do this as a
progression?
If you review the user list there has been a discussion with a few other
examples of
groups wrapping up geotools in an OSGi bundle. It is worth stopping by and
asking
if any others would be will to help test? If there is enough interest you could
set up a branch
for a couple of weeks etc...
--
Jody Garnett
On Thursday, 21 April 2011 at 12:56 PM, whatnick wrote:
> 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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