Well, I give up :-(
I decompiled the RasterLayerRequest class that was in the 10.8 release and when
I added it to my project, I got a past the NPE but ended up with a totally
different error (negative array index).
I ended up converting the ESRI grid to a geotiff using gdal_translate and now
I have posted the question on the gis stackexchange:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/128350/error-reading-esri-arcgrid-file-using-geotools
Follow-up questions:
(1) What version of GDAL should I use for the GeoTools 10.8 release? In my
tests, I am using the latest and greatest (version 1.1
