Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] suggestion and others about geootools quickstart

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Michael Bedward ha scritto:
> Hi Riccardo,
> 
>> i am not sure this is the right place where to post my suggestion about the
>> Geotools Quickstart, but i can't find any other way to contact someone from
>> geotools.
> 
> This is actually the best place to provide feedback !
> 
>> Some imprecision in the Quickstart
>> guide http://www.geotools.org/quickstart.html
>>
>> the xml dependency is missing the closure tag </dependencies>
> 
> Mmm... I've just check the page and I can't see this problem in any of
> the pom snippets. Where on the page is it ?
> 
>> to run the quickstart code i had to add  the following dependency line (that
>> is not present in the guide)
>>
>> <dependency>
>> <groupId>javax.media</groupId>
>> <artifactId>jmf</artifactId>
>> <version>2.1.1e</version>
>> </dependency>
>> <dependency>
>> <groupId>javax.media</groupId>
>> <artifactId>jai_core</artifactId>
>> <version>1.1.3</version>
>> </dependency>
>> otherwise i had an ClassNotFoundException about
>> javax.media.jai.PropertySource
>> i am using jdk 1.6.0_11,  maven 2.2.1,  eclipse Galileo 3.5 on Windows XP.
>> hope this helps.
> 
> Yes, the jai_core issue is known and a fix will be included in version
> 2.6.1 which will be out very soon. GeoTools was forcing people to have
> JAI installed even if they were only working with vector data (JAI is
> a raster image processing library).
> 
> As far as I know the JMF issue hasn't been reported before.  I don't
> have this jar on my system but don't get the error. Howerver, I'm
> using a different IDE and OS.

I work on Linux with Sun JDK and I dont' need to add JMF to the mix
in order to make it work.
The javax.media.jai.PropertySource class is contained in jai-core.
Afaik we're not using the java media framework at all

Cheers
Andrea

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