[osmosis-dev] Informations about osmosis

[Brett Henderson]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:04 AM, sorel <johann.sorel at geomatys.fr> wrote:

>
> The reason why I would like it to be splitted is more a design need.
>
> Actually geotoolkit alone weight ~10Mb for ~65 Jars.
>

65!  I need to check this project out, it's obviously bigger than I realised
;-)


> With the dependencies it's ~45Mb and ~125 Jars.
>

Yep, that's quite a lot.


>
> You can understand that with big project we need to have to handle very
> carefully
> dependencies of it's overall size will explode.
> We have ~100 maven modules to achieve a thin granularity so anyone can make
> an
> application with just what is needed, not more.
>
> The reason is for the end applications, an exemple is Java applets or web
> applications.
> (web container like tomcat/glassfish/jboss start to complain when you go
> over 40Mb)
>
> geotoolkit has plenty of sub projects, constellation, mapfaces, puzzle-gis,
> mdweb ...
>
> I understand that thin control is not a real problem on small projects but
> at our level
> we start to have a lot of 1+1+1+1 ... if you see what I mean :D.
>
> I can't force you to split it of course, it's your project. it's just a
> kind of wish.
>

Honestly, I don't mind Osmosis being broken down into smaller pieces.  In
fact it probably makes a lot of sense.  I just don't have the time to do it
myself at the moment.  I'll support anybody who wishes to have a go at it.

Brett
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