Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] standard for writing features to mySqlDataStore

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Holmes
No, there is currently not. We've experimented in the API with a createFeatureType function, but it has never really caught on, and MySQL definitely does not implement it. The problem is that our feature model currently isn't quite complex enough to store information like primary key informat

[Geotools-gt2-users] standard for writing features to mySqlDataStore

2006-02-24 Thread Joel Mirkin
Hi, I'm new to geotools.  I wanted to know if there is a standard way to write to a mySqlDataStore that will automatically generate the database tables if they don't already exist. I would like to avoid having to execute a CREATE for each table. Any help would be appreciated. Joel

[Geotools-gt2-users] Hybrid JDBCDataSource

2006-02-24 Thread Manuele Ventoruzzo
Hi all, As written in document http://www.geotools.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Extending+the+JDBCDataStore/, Geotools uses two approaches for managing cartographic data: using a spatial database or storing every feature into BLOB field of a traditional relational database. Using other GIS toolkits