[postgis-users] Re: wkb4j

[James Macgill]

At 20:46 27/07/2002, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>WKB4J is a small Java toolkit designed to parse WKB data stored in a 
>PostGIS database and convert it into Java objects. WKB4J implements the 
>Simple Features Specification for SQL as defined by the OpenGIS consortium.
This message is more appropriate for our developer list so I am copying the 
response there.

>WKB4J is lean and mean, meaning that speed and reduced memory footprint 
>where the primary concern. WKB4J is approximately 3 to 10 times faster 
>than going through the WKT format.

That's excellent news, and will definitely make using PostGIS a far more 
attractive proposition.

>One other problem is that there are many Java geographical toolkit around, 
>so WKB4J was built with portability in mind. Thoses concerns are 
>highlighted in the design of the library. Right now, WKB4J supports the 
>following toolkits: ...
>* JTS

Rob Hranac mentioned your project during a recent developer IRC session and 
I think he mentioned that someone was working on integrating it with our 
PostGIS module, but I can't remember who (it may even have been 
you).  Given that GeoTool2 is JTS based I can't imagine that there would be 
very much involved.

Robs away for the moment so I can't confirm the details.  That said, if its 
as straightforward as I imagine it would be then I may look at updating the 
module myself.

Many thanks for your hard work, it is much appreciated.

All the best

James

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James Macgill
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