On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Brett Antonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I'm interested in starting a new community module for GeoServer.
>  Specifically, I want to write a plugin to provide support for the Esri REST
> API.  The full documentation for the REST API as available at
> http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/index.html.  A
> version of this API has also been submitted to OGC for adoption.  A full
> implementation of this spec on top of GeoServer would allow users of the
> Esri JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight APIs to utilize GeoServer in place of
> ArcGIS Server and give another method for accessing geospatial data that can
> be used as an alternative to WMS and WFS.
>
> My initial plan behind implementation of this REST API is to implement the
> ArcGIS Server 10.0 version and then the OGC version later.  This way we can
> use the
>

Sounds really interesting!
The ArcGisServer API is quite extensive, as a curiosity, what subset do you
plan to implement?

Also, did you have a look at the developer guide, in particular the project
policies
and procedures?
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/

Cheers
Andrea

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