Geo Coordinates converting

I've made discovery working on the last task: could you imagine that there are many many many geographical coordinate systems in the world? I couldn't. I was pretty sure that there is only one: longitude and latitude.

Surprise! There are much more of them and they are widely popular. Some of them are used in particular domain, some of them are specific for some countries. For example, you can read more about Gauss–Krüger coordinate system.

import org.geotools.geometry.GeneralDirectPosition;
import org.geotools.referencing.CRS;
import org.opengis.geometry.DirectPosition;
import org.opengis.referencing.FactoryException;
import org.opengis.referencing.NoSuchAuthorityCodeException;
import org.opengis.referencing.crs.CoordinateReferenceSystem;
import org.opengis.referencing.operation.MathTransform;
import org.opengis.referencing.operation.TransformException;


public strictfp double[] translate(String from, String to, double x, double y)
            throws FactoryException, NoSuchAuthorityCodeException, TransformException {

        CoordinateReferenceSystem sourceCRS = CRS.decode( from );
        CoordinateReferenceSystem targetCRS = CRS.decode( to );

        MathTransform transform = CRS.findMathTransform(sourceCRS, targetCRS, true);

        DirectPosition expPt = new GeneralDirectPosition(x, y);
        expPt = transform.transform(expPt, null);
        return expPt.getCoordinate();
}

Ok, it looks good. One time consuming issue - it's to include correct libraries with Maven, because this small piece of code has very wide dependencies and it took several hours to manage correct combination :)

So, maven dependencies:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-opengis</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-metadata</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-referencing</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-epsg-hsql</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jai_core</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.3</version>
        </dependency>