[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#715530: JAI alternative

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Johan,

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Geotools and geoserver are two widely used java GIS packages which now
> rely on their own JAI alternative. I believe this may be an
> interesting alternative for other projects as well:
> 
> https://github.com/geosolutions-it/jai-ext
> 
> JAI-EXT is an open-source project which aims to replace in the long
> term the JAI project. JAI is provides a set of high level objects for
> the image processing. One feature of the JAI API is the ability to
> process the images in a multithreaded environment; this functionality
> can be reached by calculating each image tile separately.

Sounds pretty cool!  Any volunteer for packaging?  I'd happily sponsor
jai-ext.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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