Dear Jody and all, I'm new to GeoTools, and when going through the User Guide I found some inconsistencies that got me confused at the beginning (but great work with documentation in general, thanks!). Actually, some of these seem to be quite silly, but all together they slowed me down a little.
Some of these issues also relate to a post sent by Ryan Moquin last january: http://www.nabble.com/A-little-puzzled-about-geotools-and-Maven2-td14992010.html#a14992010 First thing relates to setting up Maven. In the "01 Welcome" section, when we go to the items "03 First Project" and "04 How to Read a Shapefile", the User Guide states that Maven dependencies should be set up to things like "gt2-main", "gt2-shapefile", etc. (see http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/03+First+Project). Everything works fine when using version 2.4.4, however Maven couldn't find those dependencies when I configured it to use 2.5-M3 (which is what the User Guide is talking about). I tried using 2.5-SNAPSHOT, which Maven does find, but it then gives me lots of problems when trying to run these first examples. In the end, I found out that everything works properly if I just switch those Maven dependencies to "gt-main" and "gt-shapefile" (without the 2). Is this really the right thing to do? (if it is, then let's correct the Guide!) Other than that, I also found some issues in the "09 Main" section, when trying out building FeatureTypes in item "03 SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder and SimpleFeatureBuilder" (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/03+SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder+and+SimpleFeatureBuilder) The first example there explains how to use a "SimpleTypeBuilder", however that class is not found anywhere, as Ryan also found out in that post. I guess that this class should be "SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder", as in the title of the section, right? Further on, the second example in the same page talks about using the method "CommonFactoryFinder.getSimpleTypeFeatureFactory" to retrieve a "SimpleTypeFactory" object. However, I couldn't find neither of those classes. Here, I haven't yet played around to find out how to do it right - maybe SimpleTypeFactory should be replaced by FeatureTypeFactoryImpl? Or maybe DefaultFeatureTypeFactory2? Finally, it also looks like the method "DataUtilities.create" used in the end of that page should read "DataUtilities.createType". Thanks for all! Milton ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list Geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
