I have written adapaters a couple of times; it is a good way to approach the problem. Allowing client code (ie OpenJump) to provide a FeatureFactory is one of the ways you can ask GeoTools to make use of your adapters.
In the past the GPL license (specifically on the open jump feature model) prevented me from rolling out the adapters as part of uDig. As for the feature model; all the java communities were contacted as the work was started - and projects tend to follow the needs of those contributing. In this case the people contributing (and paying for) the effort were the ones not being helped by the existing projects. Jody Martin Davis wrote: > Excellent question, SS. I'm not surprised to see this come up. > Greater integration with GeoTools has often been suggested as the > ultimate goal for future JUMP design, but I've always been concerned > that GeoTools imposes an undesirable level of complexity. It would be > nice to find a good path forward between the Scylla of incompatibility > and the Charybdis of code complexity... (yes, it's Obscure Classical > Allusions day today...) > > A couple of comments: > > 1. Your idea of "a small simple feature library" sounds like exactly > what the idea of defining the JUMP Core API was meant to address. > Does that sound right? (Are you familiar with this idea, or did it > not make it over to OpenJUMP?) > > 2. Is there any possibility of someone rolling up their sleeves and > developing an Adapter API which would map the GeoTools SF model in the > JUMP Feature API? Once this was done, perhaps it would then be much > easier to call GeoTools code? I realize this is probably a lot of > work, and it really needs to be done with great care in design, since > Adapter layers can get pretty tricky to code. > > I'll cc this to Jody, since he's probably best placed to comment on > this from the GT perspective. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
