Cool!  Sounds like a great way to go...

Larry Becker wrote:
> >Perhaps this could be done by simply making OS external
> >process calls, rather than in-process bindings to the library?
>
> That is actually the path I'm investigating now. The import utility 
> would just script ogr2ogr to put the results as shapefiles in a temp 
> folder. 
>
> Larry
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Martin Davis <mbda...@refractions.net 
> <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net>> wrote:
>
>     Yep, I'd agree.  And for something so core to the application, I think
>     it's really important to preserve the 100% Java aspect, with all the
>     benefits of platform-independence that it brings.
>
>     Plus all that JNI hacking - brrrrrr!
>
>     Format transformation is less core to the architecture, so it doesn't
>     seem unreasonable to look to GDAL to provide formats which are
>     required.  Perhaps this could be done by simply making OS external
>     process calls, rather than in-process bindings to the library?
>
>     Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>     > Larry,
>     >
>     > I don't know much about GDAL, but I'm thinking it will be a lot
>     easier
>     > to add deegree or GeoTidy/GeoTools CRS support to OJ.
>     >
>     > SS
>     >
>     > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Larry Becker
>     <becker.la...@gmail.com <mailto:becker.la...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> This post is continuing the debate/discussion about adding OJ
>     projection
>     >> support, and other interesting things that GDAL provides.
>     >>
>     >> I've noticed that Even Rouault has been giving the GDAL Java
>     bindings quite
>     >> a workout lately.
>     >>
>     >> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/java/apps/
>     >>
>     >> Does this development indicate that it may no longer be quite
>     so difficult
>     >> to add GDAL support to JUMP?
>     >>
>     >> regards,
>     >> Larry
>     >> --
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>     >>
>     >>
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