I must agree with many of the points made by Stefan and Michael. I know the language would be a barrier for me. :]
I think someone (I can't remember who) looked at this issue rather closely and decided that it would be a huge amount of work to integrate the Kosmo changes into OpenJUMP. Having said that, I'm always looking for opportunities to share code with GeoTools, Deegree, Kosmo and others. Paul's work on the DataObjects framework should help with that, as it will allow us to overcome some of the challenges presented by the different feature models. I don't know that we need to "merge" Kosmo and OpenJUMP. What would really benefit everyone is if Kosmo and OpenJUMP programmers could develop libraries that could be shared between programs. We can do this by splitting out the lower level compontents that could then be used by different programs. Take, as an example, Java code that would work with TINs. You could separate the code for TIN model I/O and manipulation into a separate API that could be used by different programs, and then build a separate program-specific plug-in/user interface for Kosmo, UDig, and OpenJUMP. I think the only obstacle to this type of thing is better communications between projects. I'd love to hear suggestions on how that can be improved. I'm already subscribed to the UDig, Deegree, and GeoTools mailing lists. Maybe each project could appoint a volunteer to coordinate new functionality being incorporated into each project. Or maybe we try and host a quarterly online meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration? I think we could accomplish a lot by changing our library design to share low-level components. The Sunburned Surveyor On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Michaël Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Kosmo benefits an important developper team, and I would have liked a > better cooperation between OpenJUMP and Kosmo. > I think the main problem is that kosmo started its development from an > old version of Jump, and when the first opensource version of kosmo was > published, jump and openjump had already made good progresses. > Now, it would be a lot of work to merge all openJUMP improvments into > kosmo (or the opposite). > I think OpenJUMP lacks development power to proceed to a big change like > integrating all kosmo's improvements or merging openjump goodies into > kosmo's core. > The way kosmo is driven maybe another difficulty (highlighted by > Stefan), and language and code comments may be another difficulty (I did > not check how kosmo code is documented). > Other comments from OJ's active developpers ? > > my 2 cents > > Michaël > > Stefan Steiniger a écrit : > > > >Hei Peppe, > > > >the problem is simply that KOSMOs development is driven by project needs > >and that they focus on a spannish user community. > > > >On the one hand, there is the advantage if massive improvements and man > >power by Kosmo. On the other I am not sure if this would be a good idea > >if we allow a project driven development. Further we work on OJ if we > >find time. So it would be hard for us if a development schedule is > >introduced. > > > >so, more or less we can not really work together because we have > >different interests in the development - only exchanging sources and > >functionality would be possible. Or where would one see how we could do > >that? This topic would also need comments by Intevation/LatLon and > >SkyJUMP... but only if other volunteers aggree in a common project. > > > >my 2 cents. > >Stefan > > > >Giuseppe Aruta schrieb: > > > > > >>Hi all > >>I recently started to collaborate with the Kosmo SAIG project, > >>translating the software in Italian. > >>I use both software with my geological project.I belive that the 2 > >>software together have a strong potentiality. I would like to find a > >>common area for the development of both "brothers", starting a common > >>project. 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