Re: [Geotools-devel] ArcSDE state of play, some mistakes due to new feature model handling of Date converations

[Saul F. <sj...@ya...>]

> About date.. Saul, is calendar really needed? I understand the binding should 
> be either Date or javax.sql.TimeStamp and Calendar provides just a proper way 
> to deal with dates, but its not a data object itself?
> 

Two things:

1) calendar (confusingly) *is* a data object itself.  It's a data object
with a current date, time *and* calendar rules representation.

2) do we need to use calendar?
I guess I'm less sure about that one.  I think calendar is used because
that's what SDE requires internally:

http://edndoc.esri.com/arcsde/9.2/api/japi/docs/com/esri/sde/sdk/client/SeDate.html

And also what SDE returns from a Date column in the db:

http://edndoc.esri.com/arcsde/9.2/api/japi/docs/com/esri/sde/sdk/client/SeRow.html#getTime(int)


My preference would be to continue to use Calendar, unless there's a
compelling reason not to do so.  Let me know what you guys find out.


--saul