Hello Curtis
I can not tell about the possible usage of ctrueden/ucar-units in the UCAR
library. But on the units topic in general, just a few hints: they were various
efforts to propose a standalone units package, including standardization efforts
that failed (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=108 which was inspired by the UCAR
units library of that time, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=275). The reason for
the JSR-275 failure was, among other, an API exposing too much implementation
details (I agree with this objection, but this is unfortunate that the JCP
procedures didn't gave the opportunity for JSR-275 to apply corrections and make
new proposal). Other JSR define units-like API, especially the mobile-related
JSR (I forgot the number).
The ex-JSR-275 group extracted a smaller set of interfaces from their
standardization effort and published it here:
http://www.unitsofmeasurement.org/
Those interfaces are implemented by those project:
- http://www.eclipse.org/uomo/
- http://jscience.org/ (I think - need to verify if they updated their code)
- apparently there is a proprietary implementation at BT (British Telephone I
guess)
GeoAPI will probably switch their current ex-JSR-275 dependencies to the
www.unitsofmeasurement.org interfaces. If the UCAR units library implements
those interfaces, that would probably simplify the use of UCAR library with
GeoAPI (but this is not essential)...
There is also other units efforts. I forgot the link, but if you are interested
to dig in this area, I encourage you to contact Werner Keil
(werner.keil@xxxxxxxxx) who is still doing investigations about a possible (if
possible standardized) unit framework.
Regards,
Martin
Le 20/03/12 19:02, Curtis Rueden a écrit :
Hi Steve (& John & everyone!),
I hope you are well! I am writing with a question about your UCAR Units Java
package.
In recent years, my work has transitioned to visualization and analysis of
biological image data. As part of that effort, my team is developing a new
version of the ImageJ image processing program (http://developer.imagej.net/
has details). For some time now we have been planning to use the UCAR Units
package to manage units in our data structures.
I noticed that you recently published the C version of UDUNITS on GitHub at:
https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2
However, I could not find the Java version available anywhere as a standalone
project.
So I wanted to let you know that I created one:
https://github.com/ctrueden/ucar-units
I also restructured things a little to use Maven as the build system.
Is this project something you would be interested in adopting? If so, I would
be happy to donate it. I know that the NetCDF Java team is in the process of
transitioning to Maven too, so it would be pretty straightforward to split out
Units as a separate dependency. This would make it easier for third parties to
use the library on its own (I have seen other questions in the Unidata
archives about it, so I know I'm not the only one).
What do you think?
Regards,
Curtis
