[udig-devel] renderer

[Vincent Heurteaux <vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
At first, thanks for the great work you're doing.

I've  tested uDig 0.4 and read the roadmap,  and I'm impatient to use 
the first stable release.
I'm planning to  develop specific applications based upon uDig in a way 
to be integrated in a Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Our developments are around spatial imagery, and for this reason, we've 
tested different solutions including uDig and Seagis 
(http://seagis.sf.net), based upon Martin's J2D renderer. I was very 
impressed by this tool, and after testing uDig, my impression is that 
J2D fits better for our needs (for performance reasons in raster 
management, and fonctionnality like realtime resizing ScaleBar etc...).
I follow the differents geotools lists since few month, and I can 
remember discussions about renderer stuff, but I don't know if you plan 
to integrate J2D in a near future, or if your API will permit an 
external effort to integrate J2D instead of Lite-renderer.

I've  contacted Martin to know what are his plans about J2D 
Development, he told me that J2D needs a refactoring to be geoAPI 
compliant and some memory management modification.
He told me he first got a lot of work to do with GC. So, we plan to 
help Martin's development process by allocating developer time on GC 
stuff so that he will be able to work sooner on J2D.


Vincent