Transforming a WGS84 coordinate into geocentric cartesian coordinate

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<groupId>de.oschrenk.geo</groupId>
	<artifactId>geolab</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
		<geotools.version>8.0-M4</geotools.version>
	</properties>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.4</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.6</source>
					<target>1.6</target>
					<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>

	<dependencies>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
			<artifactId>gt-api</artifactId>
			<version>${geotools.version}</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
			<artifactId>gt-main</artifactId>
			<version>${geotools.version}</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
			<artifactId>gt-epsg-hsql</artifactId>
			<version>${geotools.version}</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>4.10</version>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>

	</dependencies>

	<repositories>
		<repository>
			<id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
			<name>Java.net repository</name>
			<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
		</repository>
		<repository>
			<id>osgeo</id>
			<name>Open Source Geospatial Foundation Repository</name>
			<url>http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/</url>
		</repository>
	</repositories>

</project>

stacktrace.txt

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: dimension must be <= 3
	at com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.impl.CoordinateArraySequenceFactory.create(CoordinateArraySequenceFactory.java:90)
	at org.geotools.geometry.jts.DefaultCoordinateSequenceTransformer.transform(DefaultCoordinateSequenceTransformer.java:93)
	at org.geotools.geometry.jts.GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.projectCoordinateSequence(GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.java:186)
	at org.geotools.geometry.jts.GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.transformPoint(GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.java:173)
	at org.geotools.geometry.jts.GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.transform(GeometryCoordinateSequenceTransformer.java:88)
	at org.geotools.geometry.jts.JTS.transform(JTS.java:241)
	at de.oschrenk.geo.Transformations.transform(Transformations.java:50)
	at de.oschrenk.geo.TranasformationsTest.testTransformation(TranasformationsTest.java:22)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:45)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:42)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:263)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:68)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:47)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:231)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:60)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:229)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:50)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:222)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:300)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

Transformations.java

import org.geotools.geometry.jts.JTS;
import org.geotools.geometry.jts.JTSFactoryFinder;
import org.geotools.referencing.CRS;
import org.geotools.referencing.crs.DefaultGeocentricCRS;
import org.geotools.referencing.crs.DefaultGeographicCRS;
import org.opengis.geometry.MismatchedDimensionException;
import org.opengis.referencing.FactoryException;
import org.opengis.referencing.crs.CoordinateReferenceSystem;
import org.opengis.referencing.operation.MathTransform;
import org.opengis.referencing.operation.TransformException;

import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Coordinate;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.CoordinateSequence;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Geometry;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.GeometryFactory;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.impl.CoordinateArraySequence;

/**
 * 
 * @author Oliver Schrenk <oliver.schrenk@q2web.de>
 */
public class Transformations {

	private static final CoordinateReferenceSystem wgs84 = DefaultGeographicCRS.WGS84;
	private static final CoordinateReferenceSystem cartesinaCrs = DefaultGeocentricCRS.CARTESIAN;
	private static final GeometryFactory geometryFactory = JTSFactoryFinder
			.getGeometryFactory();
	private static MathTransform mathTransform;

	static {
		try {
			mathTransform = CRS.findMathTransform(wgs84, cartesinaCrs, true);
		} catch (FactoryException e) {
			System.err.println("FactoryException" + e);
		}
	}

	public static Coordinate transform(Coordinate c) {

		final Coordinate[] coordinates = new Coordinate[1];
		coordinates[0] = c;
		final CoordinateSequence coordinateSequence = new CoordinateArraySequence(
				coordinates);
		final Geometry geometry = new Point(coordinateSequence, geometryFactory);

		try {
			final Geometry transformedGeometry = JTS.transform(geometry,
					mathTransform);
			final Coordinate[] coordinateArray = ((CoordinateSequence) transformedGeometry)
					.toCoordinateArray();
			return coordinateArray[0];
		} catch (MismatchedDimensionException e) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
		} catch (TransformException e) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
		}

	}
}