Re: [udig-devel] Where to put caching WFS module

[Andrea Aime <aaime@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> Hi Emily 
>
> I have a couple of ideas; not sure if they are good however. Is this 
> specifically a caching WFS module? Or can it be used to cache any 
> FeatureSource?
>
> My initial idea of integration was to make a service similar to that 
> used for temporary memory datastores. That is a specific entry in the 
> catalog that would hold all the cached datasets. When a GeoResource is 
> cached the dataset would show up here; and the cached dataset would be a 
> friend of the original dataset (so any layer that is drawing 
> the original would have a chance to consider this faster local friend).
>
> In terms of holding the code; you could start off as a community module 
> and we could copy the code into udig as it passes code review etc. I 
> know Jesse is worried about the geotools module being unsupported; if 
> you are happy reviewing that code we can also start to copy it into a 
> more mainstream geotools module such as "gt-data".

Please keep it in its own module. If it's good enough, have a 
maintainer, have enough test coverage, a wiki page (that is, if
it satisfies the requirements to become a maintained module) then
ask to graduate it, and move it to extensions or plugins (not sure
which one is the best place).

Cheers
Andrea

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