GAL Framework – Current State of the Project

Authors

  • Radek Bartoň Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology
  • Martin Hrubý Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/gi.3.1

Keywords:

design, GIS, GRASS, open source, library, dynamic language, remote procedure call

Abstract

The GAL (GIS Abstraction Layer) Framework is a component-architecture-oriented1 remote procedure call (RPC) library with implementations of GIS-related subsystems communicating using the library and a set of demonstrational and testing tools utilizing that services. It doesn’t aim to be a full-featured solution for GIS application construction but a proposal for possible incremental GRASS GIS2 modernization. This article summarizes current state of the project, it’s history, application and potential and also presents options for further advancement and areas of possible participation. Only a concern of other developers or users and the time may transform this idea into something practically usable.

References

Christopher Lenz, Dave Abrahams and Christian Boos. Trac Component Architecture http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ComponentArchitecture, July 2007.

Radek Bartoň and Martin Hrubý. GAL Framework. In Proceedings of the workshop Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2007. Czech Technical University in Prague, September 2007.

GRASS Development Team. GRASS GIS. http://grass.itc.it.

freedesktop.org. D-Bus. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus.

SWIG. Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator. http://www.swig.org.

Radek Bartoň. SoTerrain. http://blackhex.no-ip.org/wiki/SoTerrain, October 2007.

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2008-04-12

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