Hi again, I found this mail with regard to the WFS 1.1 question, are there any updates to the stated?
Best regards, Jens On 10 Oct 2006 at 1:30, Jody Garnett wrote: > Upendra wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am new to UDIG. I want to use udig with WFS. I was able to use it > > with WFS 1.0, but not with WFS 1.1. My question:- Is it even possible > > to develop general purpose client for any WFS 1.1? > Of course. We did one for the OWS-3 project that you can take a look at, > we did not roll it out into the codebase as we only managed to parse > points as far as geometry went. But now geotools has picked up the work > so we could do better - just need time / money / volunteers (preferably > all three) > > What if my WFS schema is very complicated? > This is why we had to develop our own parser (our WFS 1.0 support is > done with the generation 3 geotools parser, the WFS 1.1 mentioned above > using generation 4). The feature model used has also been a blocker, > but that has gotten some research attention since this time last year, > now we need some development time to bring it home. Currently the ground > work will be ready to do this for next year, but we make work on funding > for that :-) > > I got a geotools steering document to present to their project > management committee about that. > > In case of WFS 1.0 schemas are usually very simple, one just has to > > look at a geometry field in the schema and use it for rendering. What > > if there are multiple geometry fields or if there is topological > > complex instead of a geometry field? Is it possible to create a > > general purpose client without knowing the WFS application schema > > beforehand? Any answers will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > Sure, and we do this. So far we have been limited by data sources > presenting interesting content (so our current tools have not been > tested with more then one geometry field per feature etc...). > > Um I have lots of links to this work ... what are you interested in? > Anything beyond it can be done? > > Cheers, > Jody > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel -- Jens Stutte, Project Manager Planetek Italia srl Via Massaua, 12 - 70123 Bari, Italy Tel. +39 080 5343750 Fax +39 080 5340280 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.planetek.it _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
