[udig-devel] IResolve to Resolve

[Jody Garnett]

So it is time to work with others, the geotools project has ported the 
uDig IResolve API (for catalog), and completed it as an implementation 
of the "extensible interface pattern". What does this mean? It means 
that you will be able to supply a factory that can make new adapters for 
existing IService and IResource handles (no more if/then/else logic).

I have several choices ...

Option 1: extend at the interface level
interface IResolve extends Resolve  {...};

Option 2: extend at the implementation level
interface WFSGeoResourceImpl implements GeoResource, Resource {....};

Option 3: Bridge
class GTGeoResource implements GeoResource {
    GTGeoResource(Resolve handle);
}

The API we are after is here:
- 
http://javadoc.geotools.fr/2.2/org/geotools/catalog/ResolveAdapterFactory.html
- 
http://javadoc.geotools.fr/2.2/org/geotools/catalog/ResolveAdapterFactoryFinder.html

There is no point in using the GeoTools API directly as it does not make 
use of all the Java 5 tricks that make this a fun API for uDig, Option 1 
looks to be non transparent but easy, Option depends on implementors too 
much,  and Option 3 is only useful if the GeoTools community 
implementation over takes ours.

Cheers,
Jody