If you don't look after the convention issue (always an option), perhaps
the datastore should be renamed to GeoServerDataStore ... thus
advertising more acurately the intended use :). This option probably has
some speed inprovements availiable too ... but might open a can of worms
(filled with sockets?).
Well, this allows me to voice something I had in the back of my mind...
when uDig or whatever app based on gt2 communicates with geoserver, it
would be nice to allow the usage of transport protocol more space
efficient and less cpu intesinve than GML. It does not even need to be
"our little secret", we can leverage stuff as java serialization (if
only Feature was serializable, another big annoyance imho) or use
protocols such as Hessian
(http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/protocols/hessian.xtp),
which is both binary, simple and language independent.
It would still be WFS, just with a smarter encoding...
Luis Sevilla of gvSig is working to organize a bit of an
interoperability to focus on better WFS performance. Definitely high on
the list of things to investigate is a nice binary transport format.
It would be very nice if the next iteration of WFSDataStore decoupled
the WFS protocol stuff from the response type - I feel like they're
pretty closely coupled now. Ideally we could support the binary format
we decide to use, and even be able to use shapefile as a transport
protocol for flat responses, reusing our existing shapefile code.
Another option may be the bxml stuff that cubewerx was pushing awhile ago:
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/05-cubewerx-position-w3c-bxml.pdf
http://www.cubewerx.com/main/cwxml/
Chris
Cheers
Andrea Aime
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