Behold the power of ascii art! A feature is made of properties: Feature <>----* Property
A property is abstract; it is either a Attribute (ie real data) or an association (a relationship or pointer to real data) Property <|----Attribute Property <|---- Association Repeat - an association is a pointer to an attribute (ie real data) Association<>----- Attribute Did that help at all? There is a nice class diagram I can dig up later... And the real lesson is not how hard it is to name things; and how harder still to explain what the names are for. Jody On 07/05/2010, at 1:27 PM, Michael Bedward wrote: > I've realized that I'm unclear about the distinction between feature > attributes and feature properties. > > In the context of DataStore etc. the docs refer to attributes. > > In the context of filters, SLD etc properties and property names are > mentioned. > > Are these terms synonymous some or all of the time or are there (as I > suspect) differences that should be explained in the docs ? > > The main thing I've learned from editing the javadocs so far is how > little I know about GeoTools. > > Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
