Folks, First - sorry for the cross-posting.
Several times we had here or around a beer longish discussions about how suboptimal the Java Time & Date classes are (I am using the most diplomatic language I am capable of :-) In addition there is virtually no good support for spatial coordinates (GIS or Space).
As some of you might remember we used to stick our noses in large astronomy projects. As everyone should expect, what standard Java offers is not worth trying (neither it is accurate, nor complete). So slowly we collected some high accuracy sources for handling time (actually different times) and spaces (earth and space based coordinates). This calculations are accurate enough to dock russian and american space labs or guide earth based telescopes with accuracy of 0.3" for 100 years. This also includes different calendars and time zones ... sigh.
We hope to finish our current project by the end of this year and our plan was to open source most of our time and space related Java sources. If this will be integrated with Wonder or will be an independent framework is to be discussed (suggestions are welcome).
At the WWDC I would like to collect your ideas & suggestions about such a framework, and also about native FrontBase support (perhaps something like PostGIS). Of course emails are welcome, but napkin and back-of-an-envelop discussions are way more productive. So I hope some of you managed to buy a ticket. (Unfortunately I could not make it for the WOWODC :-(, but after the Steve Note there will be plenty of time to discuss.
see you in a week Georg Tuparev Tuparev Technologies Sofijski Geroj 3, 1612 Sofia, Bulgaria Phone: +359-2-9501505 Fax: + 359-2-9532216 Mobile: +31-6-55798196 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
