Martin, Will you be at the TC in Crystal City later this month?
It would be good for you to provide an announcement of OGC activity in JCP to a DWG. George On Mar 12, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > A new Java Specification Request (JSR) has been submitted for designing > a "Unit of Measurement" API. If successful, this JSR would replace > JSR-275 used by GeoAPI: > > https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=363 > > The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is listed as a supporting > organization for this JSR. To my knowledge, this is the first time OGC > gets in touch with the Java Community Process (JCP). This JSR may be of > interest not only to GeoAPI, but also to Sensor web and Observations & > Measurements groups. Compared to the previous JSR-275 attempt, this new > JSR focus more on mobiles. > > In an OGC meeting last year, we voted the replacement of "javax.measure" > by "org.unitsofmeasurement" dependencies in GeoAPI. This change had been > suspended because information about this JSR preparation came after the > vote. If this new JSR succeed, there is chances that the same > "javax.measure" namespace would be used, in which case no change should > be done in GeoAPI. I will keep peoples informed about progress. > > Volunteers can join the JSR group by clicking the "I would like to join > this Expert Group" link on the JSR-363 page. > > Martin > George Percivall [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/gpercivall @Percivall on Twitter +1-301-560-6439 http://www.opengeospatial.org/ OGC -- Making Location Count
