Hi all, I was just very pleased to find that the user guide's page on shapefile loading has been updated to reflect the new GT2.5 specific features. I find this page (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/04+How+to+Read+a+Shapefile) is really useful for beginners to see that GeoTools is easy to use for easy things.
What I would add to the explainations is the different levels of data retrievel/processing. I can imagine a new user would question: What is the difference between - DataStore, - FeatureSource/FeatureStore/FeatureLocking and - FeatureCollection? My understanding (from the JavaDoc and the proposal page) is that DataStore is the old and FeatureSouce (and friends) the new interface for data discovery while FeatureCollection is used within the application to work with the data, f.e. it serves as a data model for one map layer. I just think this is worth a note on this page. --- My second question on this topic is: The gt-shapefile module declares velocity-1.4.jar and velocity-dep-1.4.jar as dependencies. This is reflected by the image on the user guide page. However I seem unable to find where this dependency is actually used (I searched the source files for "velocity" both in Explorer and in Eclipse) and didn't find a single match.) Also the code example given runs smoothly without this dependency. So: Is velocity actually required to read and/or write shapefiles? If not, can the dependency be removed or is there another specific reason it is declared? -- Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
