Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoAPI-SNAPSHOT updated with ISO 19115 interfaces

[Jesse E. <je...@re...>]

Martin Desruisseaux said the following on 07/14/2004 11:53 AM:

> Hello all
>
> I just updated geoapi-SNAPSHOT on iblio. The new GeoAPI JAR file 
> contains ISO 19115 interfaces, which can be browsed online here:
>
>
>    http://geoapi.sourceforge.net/snapshot/javadoc/index.html
>
>
> Note that in order to compile Geotools with this new JAR, developper 
> will also need to do a SVN update.
>
>
>
> This API is a realization of ISO 19115 
> (http://www.opengis.org/docs/01-111.pdf) as straightforward as I can. 
> There is no interfaces or methods addition compared to ISO 19115. 
> However, the API will probably change according GeoAPI mailing list 
> feedback. For example we plan to replace arrays by java.util.Set.
>
> org.opengis.metadata.MetaData and Identification contains all methods 
> found in org.geotools.metadata.iso19115. Concequently, the later could 
> be removed. Key differences are:
>
>   - org.opengis.metadata has no MetaDataElement interface, because I
>     didn't found it in ISO 19115. However, we could add it if a
>     request is send to the GeoAPI mailing list.
>
>   - Methods in MetaData and Identification returns the more accurate
>     type instead of the generic MetaData[Element]. However, most
>     method names are the same.
>
>
> This also bring an other issue. There is already an 
> org.geotools.metadata.MetaData class, which is a different beast than 
> org.opengis.metadata.MetaData. In the approach I took up to now, all 
> org.geotools.XXX classes are implementations of org.opengis.XXX 
> interfaces (i.e. I just replace "opengis" by "geotools" in the fully 
> qualified name). If we choose to continue that way, 
> org.geotools.metadata.MetaData should be an implementation of 
> org.opengis.metadata.MetaData. This means that current 
> org.geotools.metadata.MetaData should be moved in an other package. 
> Maybe some org.geotools.metadata subpackage? What do you think?
>
>     Martin.


Hi Martin,

Jody and I have been talking about the metadata and realized that there 
are a few things we need to talk about in order to make out metadata 
communication and work together.  We're hopping on irc #geotools chat.  
It'd be great if you'd join us there.


Jesse