On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michael Bedward <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
As far as I remember the build server does not have JAI installed in the JRE. Add a module with junit tests that are supposed to pass even if JAI is not available (of course the module won't have any direct or indirect JAI dependency) Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
