Re: [udig-devel] Geowidgets? and Go-1

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Turton wrote:
> On 4/24/05, Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Matthias Basler wrote:
>
>
> > > Long term goals:
> > > - MapCanvas, Legend panels, etc., by building on the existing widgets
> >
> > They did start something along the map canvas idea. We offered to
> > develop the udig redering framework in geotools last year, but nobody
> > understood the tradeoffs we were trying to make (a layer separate from a
> > either a WFS+SLD or a WMS rendering of the layer).
>
>
> The GO-1 project (and geoapi - I think) has a defined  a canvas widget
> aswell as some other widgets.

That is a good point, in my intial review of the API they lacked 
sufficient scalability for our intended use.  They did make some 
revisions with the addition of a DataStore api etc.

My recent review of their FeatureType model showed that it lacked 
sufficient flexability to capture GML based features, although their 
Geometry interfaces seem to be sufficient.

Right now we do not have any implementations of the GO-1 object in the 
public domain. Geotools is at best 6 months to a year (and a 
harmonization effort) away.

Jody Garnett