Re: [Geotools-devel] [geotools-dev] Looking for class files in org.geotools.catalog

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

Jaeger, Pascal wrote:
> Thanks for the information Justin.
> But I'm a little bit lost right now.
> These classes have been in the core quite a long time and are now unstable?
> 
Yes they were... but they were put there prematurely. The instability 
comes from simply lack of testing really, a bit of over complexity. It 
was assumed that it was more or less unused. You are actually the first 
user I have heard using these classes. Apologies for that.

> Can you tell me the equivalent concepts of the classes GeoResource and Service
> so I can build my tool on stable classes? 
Well there are none really. The idea of a catalog is something new in 
geotools. I am not against the idea, but I think it needs to be thought 
a bit more, live as an unsupported module for a while until it is deemed 
stable, has a handful of users.

That said, we use unsupported modules all the time, so it is not so bad. 
Actually we depend on a few for geoserver (shhh... don't tell anyone :))

Hopefully once the classes start to see some major use, we can think 
about moving them back into the core of library.

-Justin
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Pascal
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Justin Deoliveira [mailto:jde...@op...] 
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2009 17:10
> An: Jaeger, Pascal
> Cc: Geotools-Devel list
> Betreff: Re: [geotools-dev] Looking for class files in org.geotools.catalog
> 
> Hi Pascal,
> 
> First off, this is not really the dev list we use, i suggest you post to 
> the sourceforge list:
> 
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
> 
> As to answer your question, yes those classes have moved because they 
> were quite unstable, untested, and really more of an experiment that did 
> not really belong in the core the library.
> 
> As for getting the unsupported jars, they are not typically released, so 
> you won't find them in the downloaded release. You can however download 
> them from one of the maven repositoryies:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/gt-repository/
> http://repo.opengeo.org/org/geotools/gt-repository/
> 
> -Justin
> 
> Jaeger, Pascal wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I have a tool based on geotools 2.3 and now I am trying to implement it
>> against 2.6.
>> But I have some difficulties with geotools.catalog.
>> I found out that ServiceInfo and GeoResourcInfo have moved to
>> geotools.data (of which I already have a jar file containing them).
>> Now I found in the JavaDoc that classes like AbstractGeoResource,
>> GeoResource and Service have been moved into
>> the gt-library.jar or the gt-unsupported.jar. But unfortunatelly I can
>> find neither of these jars.
>> Where can I get them?
>>
>> I hope you can help.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Justin Deoliveira
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