[Jaspa-users] Questions

[Simon G. <si...@sp...>]

Jaspa Users,

I have a question. I am looking at either porting JASPA to Oracle to work in conjunction with SDO_GEOMETRY
or to pull out particular methods for use on their own augmenting Oracle Sdo_Geometry functionality.

Firstly, I note that Jaspa appears to have its own version of JTS as its definition of Coordinate.java includes a measure.
I am currently working with JTS1.12 and its Coordinate.java does not have a measure ordinate. Is this the case? How deep
do the changes go? Is there a plan to fold them back into JTS?

Secondly, I prefer to work with Java 1.4 as Oracle 10gR2 is 1.4 and only 11g is 1.5.  All in all this doesn't look too difficult an issue
if I pull out functions but more so if I work with Jaspa as a whole.

Thirdly, JASPA seems to allow for auto conversion of primitive ints to Integers, boolean to Boolean in its functions .... when moving
back to an earlier JVM it is a pain because one has to do formal conversions eg

public static Double ST_Area(Geometry geom) {

if (Core.isNullGeometry(geom)) return null;

return geom.getArea();
}

public static Double ST_Area(Geometry geom) {

if (Core.isNullGeometry(geom)) return null;

   return new Double(geom.getArea()) ;
}

I can see why one might use class types over the primitive types but wouldn't more formal casting/conversion from JTS to JASPA be
better than compiler based conversion? But I have to admit I am not a vastly experienced Java programmer. When going from Oracle's
PL/SQL to the JVM I use primitive types.

That is all for now.

regards
Simon
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