Hello all I created a JIRA task for discussion about Shapefile public API. I would like to emphase that this is not about changing implementation details or designing the final API, but only about agreeing on what should be visible to Apache SIS users for the current Shapefile capabilities. The intend is to give some guarantees to SIS users that applications built on top of Apache SIS 0.5 have good chances to compile and run on SIS 0.6.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-185 SIS-185 is the umbrella for sub-tasks to be created later. For now I created only one sub-task, which is about defining Shapefile as a sub-type of DataStore. The idea is to have all SIS data reader to extend a common class, so an application can process data in the same way no matter if it is reading a Shapefile or a NetCDF file. This is needed for example by the SIS command-line tools, if we want to integrate the Shapefile format with the other understood formats (currently NetCDF and ISO 19139 XML). Martin
