This passed me by a couple of days, but the great question most cartographers should be asking is what the heck is new here? For those with no clue on geoserver, it is an opensouce(yea thank God it is) software server. It is written in Java and allows users to share and edit geospatial data. It’s default map source is openlayers ,for the geeks who frequent this blog with no geo bias, well geospatial app may need specialized server to run them. geoserver is just one of them, mapserver is another as well as ESRI’s ArcGIS server. The beauty about geoserver is its interoperability. it pushes any major spatial data source using open standards.
So what’s new..
I think for guys who have never messed up with GeoServer, i will later on write on how to set it up and how you can use it. Well the major one is its new web administration interface, this is like a leap in faith. This web interface is based on the wicket framework. The wicket framework is based on apache web server This framework lends it a huge advantage. It makes it very extendible. So developers get ready to write your components and plugins,and they will be added dynamically to the existing GeoServer architecture.
The other complex feature is its support for application schema’s. Well this is very important more so on the front of standardization. These application schemas are a form of Geographic Markup Language based on a particulat domain more. Question i can not answer is if one can mix up the different schemas or one is tied down to one when in use?
Well apart from that is stabilizing the software. With the release of this, i am thinking of making use of it in some project. Question is whose project? got a project, get in touch
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