Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

*

* Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

* of the Valencian Government (CIT)

* 

* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

* 

* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

* GNU General Public License for more details.

* 

* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, 

* MA  02110-1301, USA.

* 

*/

/*

* AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

* 2009 {Iver T.I.}   {Task}

*/

package org.gvsig.fmap.geom.primitive;

import org.gvsig.fmap.geom.Geometry;

/**

 * <p>

 * This interface is equivalent to the GM_Object specified in 

 * <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26012">ISO 19107</a>.

 * Primitive is the abstract root class of the geometric primitives.

 * Its main purpose is to define the basic "boundary" operation 

 * that ties the primitives in each dimension together. 

 * </p>

 * <p>

 * A geometric primitive is a geometric object that is not 

 * decomposed further into other primitives in the system. 

 * This includes curves and surfaces, even though they are 

 * composed of curve segments and surface patches, respectively.

 * This composition is a strong aggregation: curve segments and 

 * surface patches cannot exist outside the context of a primitive.

 * </p>

 * @see <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26012">ISO 19107</a>

 * @author <a href="mailto:jpiera@gvsig.org">Jorge Piera</a>

 */

public interface Primitive extends Geometry {

}