[Geotools-devel] Taming MapLayer

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Michael: As promised here is a start of a proposal to tame MapLayer. - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/MapContext+Refactor One of the ideas that occurred to me was to remove the methods you require for JMapPane; and ask JMapPane to wrap up MapLayers and decorate them with informati

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informal poll: how good are we for a switch to Java 6 now?

2010-06-05 Thread lim goh
2010/6/5 Andrea Aime : > Michael Bedward ha scritto: >> I agree with the points that Justin has made. The codebase is a much >> bigger hurdle for prospective developers than the Java version and I >> think it's extremely important to be mindful of what our users' >> constraints are. There's not muc

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Contacting sydney revolutionary cell; secret feature collection proposal communication dispatch code name "Bring Back FeatureResults". - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/FeatureCollection+revolution Jody On 05/06/2010, at 7:42 PM, Michael Bedward wrote: > On 5 June 2010 19:25, Andrea A

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Aime
Jody Garnett ha scritto: > I am fine for the revolution; should however talk with Justin who put > a lot of thought into the revolution and has a proposal outlining the > marching orders for the feature collection plot. Yeah, I was more sharing a sentiment than suggesting we do it right now... as

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
I am fine for the revolution; should however talk with Justin who put a lot of thought into the revolution and has a proposal outlining the marching orders for the feature collection plot. I would support the revolution in order to get feature collection separate from java.util.Colleciton; if y

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Bedward
On 5 June 2010 19:25, Andrea Aime wrote: > > /me really hates feature collections being writable. Would be +1 making >    them read only right now I'm with you comrade. Shall we plot revolution for 2.7 ? If we got the docs and examples re-jigged on trunk we might get away with it because 2.7 offe

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Aime
Michael Bedward ha scritto: > Hi Jody, > >> There are a large number of other "Collection" methods; are there any more >> candidates >> for removal? A couple weeks ago I mentioned the add/remove listener methods >> as >> something that is just not implemented. > > Yes, following your "prepared

Re: [Geotools-devel] SimpleFeatureIterator vs Iterator

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Bedward
Hi Jody, > There are a large number of other "Collection" methods; are there any more > candidates > for removal? A couple weeks ago I mentioned the add/remove listener methods as > something that is just not implemented. Yes, following your "prepared statement" analogy for FeatureCollection it

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informal poll: how good are we for a switch to Java 6 now?

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Aime
Jody Garnett ha scritto: > Workspace issues also cuts the other way; when I am handed a machine at work > it comes with Java 6 installed. And I have to go out of my way (and now > further out of my way) in order to find a Java 5 SDK to compile geotools > against. > > Truth be told I just run Ja

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informal poll: how good are we for a switch to Java 6 now?

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Workspace issues also cuts the other way; when I am handed a machine at work it comes with Java 6 installed. And I have to go out of my way (and now further out of my way) in order to find a Java 5 SDK to compile geotools against. Truth be told I just run Java 6 now at work; and get yelled at by

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informal poll: how good are we for a switch to Java 6 now?

2010-06-05 Thread Michael Bedward
On 5 June 2010 16:39, Andrea Aime wrote: > Michale, you're the users list master, if you feel like asking, just > go ahead :-p > Phooey - I've never mastered anything :-) But I will ask them... Michael -- ThinkGeek and