Sadly yes I feel the statement is quite accurate. GeoTools is just not designed for ease of use, it is designed to be powerful. Not to say that some parts of the library aren't easy to use, but as a whole GeoTools is farily unapproachable to newcomers imo. And I don't mean to point fingers here, I am as guilty as anyone of creating overly complex apis in GeoTools.
This is one of the driving design principles behind the geoscript [1] project. The focus is on convenience and clear api design at the sacrifice of some functionality. Ie you can't do everything you can with Geotools, but doing the common stuff is easy. 2c. -Justin [1] http://geoscript.org/ On 2/19/10 1:30 AM, Michael Bedward wrote: > Just saw this on twitter (from several days ago)... > > "Using #geotools to simply transform projected coordinates to screen > coordinates feels like attacking mosquito's with an army of elephants" > http://twitter.com/miblon/status/9072695715 > > Out of interest, do other folk here have similar feelings ? ie. that > simple things are sometimes made difficult ? > > When we were preparing material for FOSS4G, Jody commented that a nice > spin-off was that tweaking examples highlighted needlessly cumbersome > aspects of the library and suggested ways to simplify them. > Discussion on the list here contributes to that too of course, but > perhaps not as much as it could because (understandably) people are > mostly posting about a specific bug or road block. > > Discuss :-) > > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
