Main¶

The GeoTools Main module adds a few more interfaces to the GeoTools API, and provides default implementations for the library.

The gt-main module adds new interfacs to the GeoTools library API:

org.geotools.jts integrating geometry from JTS Topology Suite
org.geotools.api.data which defines a DataStore API to read and write spatial content

The gt-main module contains the default implementations for the GeoTools API interfaces (Filter, Style, Feature, DataStore, etc…). Implementors will also find abstract base classes in gt-main to use as a starting point for their own implementations.

Default implementation gt-api interfaces for Feature, FeatureType, Filter and Style
Default set of gt-api Functions for working with spatial data
Abstract classes to help implementers of DataStore

Finally gt-main provides different kinds of helper classes to make using everything easier.

Utility classes (such as DataUtilities)provide static methods perform common activities.
Facades (such as JTS) provide access to module services
Builders (SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder) help you construct data structures, collecting all the information provided before using a fatory to create the required object.

Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
  <artifactId>gt-main</artifactId>
  <version>${geotools.version}</version>
</dependency>

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Main¶