Developer’s Corner: JAI-Ext, the Open Source replacement for Oracle JAI
Dear Readers, it is our pleasure to introduce a new project developed at GeoSolutions, JAI-EXT. JAI-EXT is a project based on the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API, which is a Java framework for high performances image processing. The main feature of JAI is the ability to process image using deferred execution and tiling, which provide high performances when elaborating input data. Anyway JAI is no more supported by its original developers and has a very restricting license. Since in many of our project we heavily rely on JAI (one for all, GeoServer), at GeoSolutions we decided to embarque in this effort with the JAI-EXT project to completely replace...
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