On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Kenneth Gulbrandsoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that the open FileGDB API have several limitations which ArcObjects
> does not have:
>
> FileGDB API only supports file geodatabases from release 10 or later
> Spatial queries is limited to the envelope-intersects operator
> It does not (yet) support rasters
>
> (see the documentation bundled with the C++ library)
> None of these limitations apply when ArcObjects is available on the
> classpath, which is why I want to add support for both ArcObjects and the
> open FileGDB API. ArcObjects will take precedence over the FileGDB API when
> the requested geodatabase release is 10 or higher. Below, only geodatabases
> releases which is supported by the installed ArcObjects framework will be
> supported.

Works for me. Support for the free api seems still important to me, resourcing
permitting, because afaik the price tag on ArcObjects is high to the point
of being ridicolous.
Heck, one the main reason why I joined GeoTools almost 10 years ago was that
I needed a library for my GIS course students to use, and the price tag
on MapObjects java edition was way out of reach (ESRI was just interested
in selling the facutly a campus wide license, which nobody wanted, but
they would not give us free or cheap student versions of MapObjects).

Cheers
Andrea


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