[Geotools-devel] I have asked Jesse to start on FeatureCollections/FeatureResults merge

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Here is the plan:
1) FeatureResults is extended by FeatureCollection
2) FeatureResults is *not* deprecated (otherwise FeatureCollections 
would be)
3) Individual methods of FeatureResults, like reader(), are deprecated 
with instructions to use FeatureCollection.iterator()
4) An adapter will be made to gather up a FeatureReader in Iterator clothing
5) FeatureCollection.close( iterator ) will be used as a replacement for 
FeatureReader close in client code

Note this process will formally separate: the
- the low level DataStore/FeatureReader/AttributeReader API;  from
- the high level Repository/FeatureSource/FeatureCollection/Iterator API.

I love the smell of abstraction in the morning (yes this is in contrast 
to the rendering optimization discussion).
Jody