Re: [Geotools-admin] gt-opengis blog post

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Okay an initial post is available in "draft" form on blogger.

Here is the text:

The upcoming release of GeoTools represents a turning point for the GeoTools project - we are no longer taking part in the GeoAPI project.

Back in the dawn of time (well 2003) the GeoTools project started an experiment, and outreach program in the form of the GeoAPI project. Specifically this was an effort to collaborate with the deegree library (makes sense as both projects are LGPL and are working in the same domain).

Although not successful in its original goals of collaboration the GeoAPI project served as a great line of communication to the standards community. We would like to thank many of the amazing individuals who contributed their time, effort and expertise and extend an invitation for direct collaboration in the future.

A few things to keep in mind:
We must emphasis that this decision does not break any client code
The org.opengis interfaces will remain in the GeoTools library as part of the gt-opengis module
As part of this change a lot of "deprecations" have already been cleaned up (representing areas of GeoAPI where the standard had passed out of fashion)
GeoTools is committed to providing a stable API for your next (or current) Java project
The GeoAPI project is survived as an OGC Working group.


On 05/01/2011, at 10:06 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> GeoAPI was started as an outreach to deegree; and has failed to meet its objectives. We can thank the experts that collaborated with us for many years and invite them to directly work with us in the future. We should also note that this does not represent an api change and we are committed to GeoTools users now and in the future.