I finally got the export of a PDF version of the GeoTools developer guide to work after singing up with Codehaus. Perhaps we should add a note indicating that the document conversion will only work for registered users of the site? Just a thought...
I noted that the chapters of the exported PDF seem to be all mixed up. For example, chapter 8 and chapter 9 come before chapter 1. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I thought I would mention it. I realize PDF may not be the preferred form of documentation for the GeoTools Project, but I like it. :] After skimming the developer's guide, I still have a couple of questions. I'd like to ask them here, even though I didn't read EVERY page of the Developer Guide in excrutiating detail. Please forgive me for my laziness. :] Here are my questions: [1] The Developer's Guide mentions the procedures one would go trough to add a third party JAR to GeoTools. However, I didn't see any instructions on when the addition of a third party library is acceptable. Is there a criteria that I can use to determine this, or would I just propose the dependency on the mailing list? I would imagine there would be a desire to keep the number of dependencies to a minimum, thought I could be incorrect about this. [2] Where would I find a list of third party JARS already included as a dependency in GeoTools? The Developer's Guide mentioned this site: http://mvnrepository.com/. I'm not sure if that is what I am really looking for. Isn't that a list of all the Jars in some type of global Maven repository? GeoTools certainly doesn't depend on all of those, I would hope. Is there another list of required libraries for just GeoTools? I hope this question makes sense, as I am not a Maven user...yet. [3] I can't seem to find the current version of Java that GeoTools supports/requires. Where would I find this information? Is there a policy for when the library upgrades to a new JRE? Thanks for all the help. The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
