On 10/09/2009, at 2:50 AM, moverton wrote:

> Thanks all for the initial info and direction.
>
> I have indeed tried just a quick WMS client with both 2.4.x and 2.5.x
> branches, and just changing out the allows me to process a request  
> and parse
> through the capabilities document correctly.
>
> Jody, you are indeed correct that the program I have inherited does
> significantly more than just WMS interactions. I have started  
> looking into
> upgrading to the newest 2.5.7 branch, but I do foresee a fair amount  
> of work
> in upgrading. The combination of the data model changing, and the  
> gratuitous
> use of hacks by the previous owners of the code base make it a  
> daunting
> task.
>

Well let us consider going the other direction; you could back port  
the fixes for the gt-wms plugin. The plugin is pretty darn standalone  
- the only change recently has been from "Style" to "StyleImpl" as a  
geoapi interface we were using was removed.

> As to the GTCloneUtils, I believe it was deprecated in the 2.4.x  
> branch, but
> still used for object cloning in our code base. I noticed that the
> underlying objects in question do implement Cloneable, so I am unsure
> whether or not I don't need to handle that or not anymore. I  
> apologize for
> being vague, but I haven't looked at that part of the code in a  
> while. When
> I get back to those errors again, I will be able to be more specific  
> there.

No worries - user list is here for discussion. In general clone is not  
used much by modern java programs (since the API contract is odd  
enough you can almost never trust people to get it right). We have  
explicit deep copy visitors for expression and style which should be  
used instead.

> At this point, I am trying to determine if the upgrade is really the  
> best
> path for the project, or if there might be a way to hack together  
> something
> to deal with the capabilities document that ESRI provides.

See above.  You can also review the various support organisations  
listed on the wiki; I imagine it would be 1-2 days work to backport  
the wms fixes and issue a new 2.4.x release.

Jody

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