Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org> wrote:

> Daniele Romagnoli ha scritto:
> > Hi list,
> > I would like to add a new gt-jp2kakadu unsupported module on geotools to
> > allow access JP2K data using the Kakadu driver via the
> > imageio-ext-kakadu plugin we have prepared on imageio-ext. (An incoming
> > 1.0.3 release)
> > The underlying data access logics will be based on some of the key
> > objects introduced by Simone on its imagemosaic plugin such as
> > RasterManager, RasterLayerRequest, RasterLayerResponse which are
> > preposed to handle any control/logics involving
> > resolutions/envelope/overviews/crop/requests/... management.
> >
> > When proceding with improvements and tests on the previously introduced
> > concepts/objects we could extract a base architecture which may be
> > shared by plugins to access coverages.
> >
> > The "impact" of this module on the actual geotools structures is minimal:
> > That module will be out of the build during its initial life. No Kakadu
> > licensed binaries will be released or distributed.
> >
> > Example of future tasks during the development of the plugin include:
> > - gmljp2 parsing
> > - multiple codestreams access capabilities (Mainly for jpx format)
> >
> > Can I obtain the "GO" to committ this work on unsupported land? I will
> > also prepare a wiki page with additional info.
> > (The imageio-ext site already contains information about the Kakadu
> > capabilities as well as instructions on how to setup and build the
> > required kakadu native libs.)
>
> So all the code you're going to commit is patent free right?


Yes, the code is patent free.

>
> If so, go ahead. I also would like to see the module in the build
> sooner than later, of course just for compile check sake (tests
> should just disable themselves if the kakadu libraries are not
> around).


For the moment, we will still test the incoming 1.0.3 imageio-ext release
(which add support for kakadu).
Moreover we will avoid hudson from grabbing the dependencies on its
repository (as happened the past year).

Regards,
Daniele


>
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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