Ciao Robert, the work that has been done so far in order to integrate gdal with geoserver focused on gdal 1.4.x series (and actually on 1.5.x soon). Main reason to stay on very stable branches is to avoid memory leaks and put a buffere between actual development of new things inside gdal and our code.
As far as Oracle GeoRaster is involved, there are as you mention two paths for being able to use them in geoserver: 1> update the Imageio bindings to work with a newer version of gdal go through gdal itself 2> implement a store for reading(/writing?) data to the oracle georaster directly Option 1 might be faster to implement but I am a bit hesitant on this since it would bury db manaegment down inside gdal and this does not fit very well with JEE design. Moreover there is an intrinsic risk in relying on relatively new native code for this kind of task (oracle support might not be mature enough and bring the JVM to his knees). Option 2 would be probably slower and more expensive but it should turn out to be best one in term of performances, scalability and robustness. Ciao, Simone. ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Owner - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://simboss.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Robert van Drunen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to figure out how to realise the following: > > I want to use Geoserver w/ the GDAL extension (on top of GDAL 1.6) to > serve Oracle Georaster data. > > So, I think I need to write a new imageio-ext plugin because the binary > distributions do not support Georasters. So far so good. > > Is this possible? I read somewhere that the Java SWIG bindings for GDAL > 1.6 are broken and to be fixed in 1.7.0? In any case I get a lot of > errors when I try to generate the bindings in my GDAL build. > > (which could mean this message should be on the GDAL mailing lists?) > > If it's not possible in this way, are there any suggestions on how to > accomplice this? > > Best regards, > Robert van Drunen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
