[Geotools-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOT-1517) Split org.geotools.util and its friends in a GT2 "util" module

[Martin D. (JIRA) <ji...@co...>]

Split org.geotools.util and its friends in a GT2 "util" module
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                 Key: GEOT-1517
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-1517
             Project: GeoTools
          Issue Type: Wish
          Components: core metadata
    Affects Versions: 2.5-M0
            Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
            Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 2.5-M1


The {{metadata}} module contains some utilities packages that are not directly related to metadata:

* {{org.geotools.factory}}
* {{org.geotools.io}}
* {{org.geotools.math}}
* {{org.geotools.resources}}
* {{org.geotools.util}}

Those packages were initially small, and located in the {{metadata}} module because we though that they were too small to deserve their own module and {{metadata}} is simply to first module in current Geotools dependencies chain. However those packages have growth, especially {{org.geotools.util}}, and may now be big enough to deserve a separated module.

An other reason for making this split is that such module may be of some use in independant projects like {{imageio-ext}} that don't want to depend on geomatic.

Whatever {{org.geotools.factory}} should be included or not in the {{util}} module remain to be decided, since this package is more closely related to geomatic than other packages.


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