Hi Anders,

Glad to hear that you got it working. So it seems that the
load-only-when-required code in gt-swing has been undone by the
gt-render module... curses :)

> I think it would be good if jai was only optional as in 2.6 and not
> required by geotools, then geotools runs on more platforms and is
> easier to distribute.

I'm not sure that this be easy or even supported by all of the
GeoTools developers. JAI has tended to seep into many areas of the
library directly and indirectly. As your example shows, an effort to
make it optional in one module is easily cancelled out by changes
elsewhere.

As to platforms, JAI in its pure Java form should run on any hardware
/ OS for which there is a JRE available. It's true that native
libraries required for acceleration are not available on all
platforms. And on OSX (at least) I've had to disable acceleration to
have some operations work properly (e.g. floating point convolution).

However, I agree it's not ideal to require JAI for applications that
don't raster data support. Any suggestions for how to do things better
are welcome.

Michael

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