Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-20 Thread Martin Davis
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 r

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-20 Thread Larry Becker
>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

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-20 Thread Martin Davis
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 - brr! Format transformation is less core to the architecture, so it doesn'

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Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-20 Thread Rushforth, Peter
Hi Larry, My impression of using GDAL/OGR in a java application is that you need to build the c code for a specific platform using some sophisticated tool for the platform (ie Visual Studio 8 or something like that). Maybe it's possible using Netbeans or other env for other environments, but y

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-20 Thread Larry Becker
Hi Stefan, Yes, it would be an interface to an external native-code library. As you know, we do this already with ECW and MrSID. I think it is OK as long as the code is cross-platform (which I believe GDAL/OGR is). Larry On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: > Hei, > > w