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\item {Contact name: \textbf{Jody Garnett}}
\item {Website: \url{http://geotools.org/}}
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This has been a very productive year for the GeoTools project during which we really changed gears to focus on stability and documentation. This is a new direction compared to our previous emphasis on standards research. It has been accompanied by the departure of some long-standing members of our development team and the arrival of new members.

We promised productivity, let us see how well the GeoTools team has delivered:
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\item  New website \url{http://geotools.org/}
\item  Audit and cleanup of existing modules -- thanks Andrea and OpenGeo
\item  Strong Documentation for new Developers. An amazing amount of work building up friendly visual intro material -- thanks Michael
\item  Application Schema module ready for production -- thanks Perth CSIRO team
\item  New Project Management Committee members -- welcome Ben, Christian and Michael
\item  Many new modules:
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\item  the jdbc-ng (next generation) community module went from inception through our community process into production this year. Thanks to Justin and OpenGeo for this complete rewrite of our database access facilities.
\item  the swing module was reborn to support our new visual tutorial material
\item  the process module was picked up and improved with some great raster to vector functionality -- thanks Michael
\item  the JPEG2000 plugin was added -- thanks Simone
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\item  New features:
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\item  the renderer now supports geometry transformations (such as buffering and extrusion) prior to drawing
\item  high quality icon rendering from SVG -- thanks Jonathan
\item  wfs 1.1 support -- thanks Gabriel
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\item  Successful tutorial at FOSS4G 2009 -- thanks Jody and Michael
\item  GeoTools 2.5 series issued six stable releases this year.
\item  GeoTools 2.6 took over the reins as the stable release at year end
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We have a lot of great ideas for the new year and we are excited to be working with some enthusiastic and creative new contributors such as Jonathan, who is pushing interesting rendering concepts into the mix such as "unit of measure" distances (so you can finally buffer 5km around a data set), and Stephan has been introducing all kinds of useful ideas from AtlasStyler as well as contributing great patches.

Finally, we also started to investigate the issue of 3D Geometry together with folks from the deegree team. Thanks to CSIRO for setting up this opportunity, and to the deegree team for taking out from their busy release schedule to collaborate with us.

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