GeoTools 9.0-beta1 released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0-beta1 for download from source forge:

• Geotools-9.0-beta1-bin.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-doc.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-userguide.zip
• Geotools-9.0-beta1-project.zip/download

If you are using Maven this release is deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository: For more information on setting up your project with Maven see the Quickstart (included in the userguide documentation pack above).

This is a beta release made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3-beta1. This release is contains both new features and important simplifications to the GeoTools API:

• This release is feature complete and entering release candidate status next month. This represents an important policy shift to a time-boxed release model resulting in a new release every six months. This policy shift provides consistency and will assist in integration planning for the wider GeoTools community.
• Feature Collection Clean up: Has retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only implemented for in memory feature collections. This work also included a review of all FeatureCollection implementation testing for consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work.
• The Vector Grid module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work.
• General support for complex features has been factored out into the gt-complex module for reuse.
• FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for try-with-resource syntax.
• Partial 3D data support has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a followup NT LPE for Oracle support.
• Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together ReferenceEnvelope3D allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets.
• WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation.
• New OGC models have been added for WCS 2.0 and OWS 2.0 along with XML support.
• Updated to latest ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6 and JTS 1.13 release

As this release contains API changes developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions prior to use.

Release notes for GeoTools 9.0 series:

• GeoTools 9.0-beta1 Release Notes
• GeoTools 9.0-M0 Release Notes

Finally thanks to Jody Garnett and LISAsoft for this release.
Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org

GeoTools Mini Conference at OSDC Canberra

GeoTools has lined up an exciting "Mini Conference" slot at this years Open Source Developers Conference in Canberra Nov 14th (at Australian National University in the Manning Clark Center).

You can attend just the GeoTools session for $50 - but we recommend staying for the whole open source conference. There is also the Spatial@Gov conference running concurrently if you would like to focus on maps for the rest of the week.

The half day session is brought to you by two Australia GeoTools leaders: Tisham Dhar and Jody Garnett.
For details:

• GeoTools Tutorial (Mini Conference)

Would you like to run a GeoTools tutorial in your area? Join us on geotools-devel to discuss running a course (and translation opportunities). The course is an excellent introduction to both open source and geospatial conferences.
Thank you to the Aust-NZ OSGeo chapter for setting up this opportunity.

GeoSpatial for Java Workbooks available

It has now been a couple of weeks since foss4g and life is returning to normal. Thanks to everyone who contributed to a great experience. Part of that great experience was the workshop program; facilities were excellent; that staff helpful and due to a bit of scheduling fun the GeoSpatial for Java workshop was packed.

Justin and Jody were on hand for an intensive hands-on workshop "GeoSpatial for Java". This workshop offered an introduction to GIS concepts for Java developers - which is a really nice introduction since you can try out ideas and see how they work using running code.

The workshop materials have been published here:

• http://docs.geotools.org/latest/tutorials/

These workbooks are detailed step by step instructions written in a "code first" style. This allows you to carefully go through the steps required to produce runnable code. If you have any questions about the concepts or ideas covered you can continue reading for the background information.

Geospatial for Java

View more presentations from jgarnett.

This tutorial information has been gathered up in the "sphinx" documentation system; and pulls directly from Java source code examples that are built as part of our GeoTools nightly build.

Thanks to Justin for his help in setting up the sphinx nightly build; and if anyone is good at sphinx "rst2pdf" I would love to get this content out in printable form.