[Java-collab] Greetings from JTS/JUMP/JEQL

[Jody Garnett]

Martin Davis wrote:
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> I would be happy to call Martin's bluff on shared tests; right now 
>> GeoTools has a fork of JTS-1.7 and we would love to have an easy way 
>> to download the tests he has written up, I know several other 
>> projects are running their own Geometry classes and may also benefit. 
>> Martin can you think of any easy way to make those available?
> Currently the test cases are provided as XML files containing WKT or 
> WKB representations of geometries.  This is a simple format which is 
> easy to parse.  The tests are supplied in the standard JTS 
> distribution archive. I don't have any better ideas.  I'm open to 
> suggestions which don't require a ton of extra work.
I am not sure myself; how does one share test data / test cases between 
projects? Make a zip file available for download and stand back ...
>> But I think the biggest "request" for me is a lot of my projects are 
>> using maven repositories to track their dependencies; (either via 
>> maven or via ant). I would love to have a copy of jts deployed to the 
>> official maven repositories so it gets replicated around the world 
>> for us.
> As I understand it Geotools currently hosts JTS in their Maven 
> repository.  This seems like a happy arrangement to me.  Perhaps that 
> can be considered to be Geotools' contribution to the JTS project?
Fair enough; we all do what we must. Perhaps we can create a jts-src 
download and include the test cases.
Jody