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<p>The GeoTools 8.x branch started out as 2.8.x with a quick proposal to change the project version number policy. The major technical direction is the addition of &quot;live&quot; documentation using <strong>sphinx</strong>.</p>

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<p><a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GEOTOOLS/RnD" data-linked-resource-id="4577" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="RnD" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">RnD</a> and <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GEOTOOLS/Proposals" data-linked-resource-id="69440" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="proposals" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">proposals</a> completed for the 8.x branch:</p>
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<p>Available <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GEOTOOLS/8+Downloads" data-linked-resource-id="203292694" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="8 Downloads" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">8 Downloads</a>:</p>
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<h1>Usability Targets</h1>

<h2>Documentation</h2>

<p>Our initial research into the use of Sphinx has gone well; and was able to provide us a website for the 2.7.x series. <br />
Jody Garnett has ported the wiki Developers Guide and User Guide over to this format.</p>

<p>Additional help is needed to capture more of the code examples in Java files so that we can always include code that compiles.</p>

<h2>Simplification</h2>

<p>We missed a few opportunities for simplification in 2.7.x:</p>

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	<li><img class="emoticon emoticon-tick" data-emoticon-name="tick" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png" alt="(tick)" title="(tick)" /> Query - done in 2.7.x</li>
	<li><img class="emoticon emoticon-tick" data-emoticon-name="tick" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png" alt="(tick)" title="(tick)" /> FeatureLock - done in 2.7.x</li>
	<li>Transaction</li>
</ul>

<h1>Research Targets</h1>

<h2>Application Schema</h2>

<p>The work on Application Schema support by the AuScope team is wrapping up.</p>

<p>One thing this missed was the production of classes for us mere mortals working with Java code (rather than xml schema).</p>

<p>So the shopping list for java developers is:</p>
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	<li>A FeatureTypeBuilder - that is able to produce application schema compatible feature types.</li>
	<li>FeatureCollection support classes to assist with implementations</li>
	<li>Something like ContentDataStore that can be used as a starting point</li>
</ul>

<h2>Geometry (Geodetic/3D)</h2>

<p>We continue to have inquery into a data model for 3D Geometry, and more importantly geodetic geometry.</p>

<p>We looked at working with the deegree3 project on the java-collab list for 2.7.x and nothing came of it. As such I expect we will need to go it our own.</p>

<h2>N-Dimensional GridCoverage</h2>

<p>This continues to be a research topic, in particular to work with netCDF data.</p>