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Project Overview - Geoserver
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Executive Summary
Interoperability is crucial within the Geoscience community, which is continually striving to find better ways to share work and data. Spatially enabled web applications allow users to share their data using Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Service (WMS). There are a number of technologies that offer these services, both commercial and open source. Open source software is more favoured as it has less restrictive licensing requirements and is open to contributions to suit our specific needs.
GeoServer is an open source project that is Certified
OGC Compliant for its implementations of WMS 1.1.1 and WFS 1.0, and is the reference implementation of WFS 1.1. It also has a wide community that offers more sustainable support than smaller projects. Read more about it
here.
Project Overview
Within this project,
GeoServer is only used to serve WFS and WMS.
Problem Definition
The data that needs to be shared is quite often rich and deeply nested, involving multiple data sources. It was difficult to represent these complex features using the existing technologies at the time. The problems were addressed within
GeoServer application schema module.
Project Scope
The PROJECT
must include:
Key Features
The Project will deliver the following:
Must-have
- WFS support for serving rich, complex data with multiple data sources. See Feature Chaining.
- WFS support for polymorphism within application schema. See Polymorphism.
Should-have
- Support for GML 3.2 application schemas in GeoServer.
- Reference Data Set for automated testing of GeoServer application schema against databases.
- Improved GeoServer application schema performance, testing, error reporting, and platform support (64-bit, OpenJDK, IBM JDK).
Could-have
- Support in GeoServer for WMS from application schema feature types.
- Support for WFS 2.0 by GeoServer and application schema.
Out of Scope Key Features
The Project will
not deliver the following:
- Replace GeoServer application schema with an efficient object-relational mapping layer.
- Support in GeoServer for 3D geometries.
- Graphical user interface for configuration of GeoServer application schema.
Stakeholders
The key stakeholders have been identified as:
Name |
Role |
AuScope Community |
key end-user group |
International Geoscience Community |
end-user group |
Major Constraints
The project is constrained by:
- Completion date - 30 June 2011.