[Geotools-gt2-users] [Maybe-OT]: read ARC/INFO coverage properties

[Diego G. <die...@gm...>]

Hello to all, and excuse me for a little-ot...
i'm searching for a way to read arc/info coverage simple properties:
basically, for any layer of information (Points, Arcs, Rasters,
ecc...) i need to know the number of the objects in the layer and the
attributes associated (the names and types, and optionally the
values...).
The only wait to manage "coverage" in geotools seems to be via
GridCoverage (like GridCoverageReader - deprecated in 2.3.0, how
changes the code?), but i think is only for raster data like ASCII
grid or GeoTiff.
Another way to read coverage seems to be via ogr (C++ code) and jgdal
wrapper (http://projetsigle.free.fr/ressources/documentation/jgdal/api/jgdal/),
but the results seems to be not consistent with the real information
in the coverage...
Any kind of experiences from Geotools users out there?
Thanks a lor for any kind of support :)

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