[gdal-dev] Build OGR with ESRI SDE

[Brad Hards]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:51:49 AM MrMartin wrote:
> Since that geotools has  " ArcSDE plugin allows the GeoTools developer to
> work with the ArcSDE middle ware"
> <http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/124256/where-to-download-arcsde>   i
> wounder if it is possible to use this plugin to build a OGR SDE Driver?
Are you asking if using geotools could somehow avoid the need for arcsde 
client libraries? If so, no.

Reasons:
 - Geotools uses the arcsde SDK (just via Java)
 - Even if that wasn't the case, calling java (geotools) from C/C++ (gdal) 
would be fairly difficult and not very portable.

Why would you need ArcSDE support if you don't have an ESRI server license? If 
you have the server license, you should be able to download the client side 
libraries to match.

Brad