[udig-devel] Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Mobile Applications

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Zwiers wrote:

> The risks we associated with using uDig on a PDA was three fold:
>  
Nice summary David:

> 1) JAI - needed by the renderering
>  
We have a rendering "pipeline" that does not use JAI (used as a 
reference for the JAI layer composition).

> 2) ImageIO extensions - some grid formats require this
>  
I think the GeoTIFF format requires image io, GIF, PNG, JPEG world + 
file formats still work.

> 3) AWT-SWT bridging - and eclipse RCP requirement (uDig only).
>  
This is covered by the reference layer composition mentioned above (ie a 
loop of draw image).

> > Well, David, I'd like to know only if I could use all the facilities
> > of GeoTools library in a PDA or Smartphone using J2ME... I'm studying
> > this issue to decide if we begin a project with it or not...
> >    
Ah if it is just geotools (not not subset of udig) you will have a much 
easier go of things. One thing
we did run into at GML dev days was a version of GML customized for cell 
phone use. Several
Korean speakers talked about extensive standards based distribution of 
spatial information to cell
phones as well (the government talked four years, and the private 
industry talked 8 months).

Let us know how it goes, I am sure we would be open to a small geotools 
jar of just the facilities
needed for J2ME.

Jody