Hi Jody and all,

Working on FeatureSource javadocs. Can anyone put the following into
simple words for me...

     * Though it's a common practice when dealing with {...@link 
SimpleFeatureType}
     * and {...@link SimpleFeature} to assume they're equal. There's no conflict
     * (as per the dynamic typing system the {...@code org.opengis.feature} 
package
     * defines) in a Feature and its type sharing the same name, as well as in a
     * GML schema an element declaration and a type definition may be named the
     * same. Yet, the distinction becomes important as we get rid of that
     * assumption and thus allow to reuse a type definition for different
     * FeatureSoruces, decoupling the descriptor (homologous to the Feature
     * element declaration in a GML schema) from its type definition.

(from the docs for getName method)

cheers
Michael

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