Andrea Aime wrote: > Rob Atkinson ha scritto: >> Glossy UIs are not a bad thing by any means, but only make them >> believe for a short time they can do the technology side. There will >> always be issues the content folks will never be capable of dealing >> with (connection pools and dimensioning databases, security of web >> services etc. ) > > Rob, you're missing the point there. > I remember you saying one/two years ago that GeoServer was useless > without complex features... well, look again, it's been some time > and we're still here and growing.
Meanwhile, deegree is eating our lunch. Those delivering application-schema-conforming WFS use deegree, Cocoon-based XSLT, or commercial solutions. > And quite frankly, what's the last time you enjoyed putting > together an SLD by writing it directly, all or in part? > Or when did you had fun putting together yet another > OL based viewer? > I for sure hate the first and find the second annoying at best. > Please please (please!) give me a UI so that I don't have > to waste my time doing that again! Those using deegree to deliver application-schema-conforming WFS yearn for the (relative) elegance and simplicity of hand-edited XML configuration files. Ugly, yes, but at the moment they have to write many complicated XSLT to postprocess their output, and corresponding XSLT to preprocess incoming queries. Nasty. We have a window of opportunity in which GeoServer can provide a more robust and repeatable solution. Of course, a good UI is desirable in the long term, but the immediate priority must be to deliver application schema WFS with the minimum of fuss. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining Australian Resources Research Centre 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
