The development community in building GIS solutions is sustaining an enormous level of effort. The GeoAPI project aims to reduce duplication and increase interoperability by providing neutral, interface-only APIs derived from OGC/ISO Standards. GeoAPI is an OGC working group. See the charter for more informations.
Maven projects can download GeoAPI from the repositories listed here .
Development version is GeoAPI 2.2-SNAPSHOT. This version requires Java 5 or higher.
Last unofficial milestone is GeoAPI 2.1-RC1. This milestone is provided as a transition between GeoAPI 2.0 and what may be the next OGC official release. This version is provided in two flavors: geoapi-nogenerics.jar requires Java 4 or higher while geoapi.jar requires Java 5 or higher.
Last version derived from OGC working group is GeoAPI 2.0.0. This version is provided in two flavors: geoapi-nogenerics.jar requires Java 4 or higher while geoapi.jar requires Java 5 or higher.