[Geotools-devel] GUI and rendering concerns

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

Hi everybody,
I write this mail since I'm concerned about the current state of rendering and
gui classes. What worries me is the current lack of homogeneity and effort
duplication. Now, I for one, have dropped any further effort on the lite renderer:
you can consider it dead, for the moment. 
So we do have a MapPane widget that works with j2d renderer, Martin's work,
and MapPaneImpl that works with the Java2DRenderer, Cameron and IanT work.
In my opinion, we don't need them both, since they aim at the same problem
with the same objectives and trade offs.

Now, I'm working to make Martin j2d renderer support sld styles, so that this
high performance and flexible renderer can be used to produce styled maps. But
this means that these maps will be generated by a Renderer which does not
conform with Renderer2D interface. 

What are going to do? We need a decision I think. Martin's work is out of the
current architecture, but is quite advanced, Cameron's work _is_ the current
architecture, but I have yet to see it display a map. 
I think we have to decide what to do with this... once a decision
has been taken, I volounteer to do the needed work.
Please think about this subject a bit so that we can discuss it (either on the
mailing list or during Monday's meeting).

Best regards
Andrea Aime