[Geotools-devel] where are data access interfaces?

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First off, a huge apology for dropping off the irc session on monday. 
It wasn't meant to express my dislike of the new interfaces in the
slightest, it was due to my phone line getting cut and my internet
going down.  I tried to get back on but was unable to.

I'm in the process of thinking them over and writing up my feedback. 
Overall I like all the motivations behind it, very much what I would
like to see too.  I really don't like the use of the Catalog interface,
as I see that as making a radical change drawing upon what is in my
opinion a bad specification, that gains us little, except some sort of
justification that we're closer to some specs.  I'm in the process of
writing this up, have taken a few pages of notes, and will try to
synthesize tonight.

I was in the process of talking over some of the issues with James, but
we got stuck as he couldn't access the interfaces, since
http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/spike/dzwiers/ appears to be
down.  Could we get those back?  I think they provide a good discussion
point for moving forward on this stuff.  And I'm sorry you can't get
cracking on head right away David, but these changes have serious
reprecussions, and need everyone's full attention, even if that takes
more than an irc session.  I personally didn't get a chance to check
out the interfaces until the day of the irc, which was far from
sufficient time.  And they are much more radical changes than Andrea's
FID mapping stuff, which generated additional bugs for me for many
weeks.

But I'm very much for improving our interfaces and moving forward in the
directions suggested in the Data Access wiki page.  I think we can
start to move forward on this now, I don't think waiting until every
developer is ready is the right thing, as it will then never move
forward.  But we need more than one core developer driving it, even if
that means we drive a bit slower.  I for one am definitely willing to
put some time in, but at the very least we need those interfaces back
publically available.

Chris



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