Norman Barker wrote:
Hi,
after my posting a couple of weeks back, it seems I will have to write the Web Map Server and Web Feature
Server Generators :-) , should be quite a nice challenge.
Couldn't find your posting sorry - please repost.
I guess it would be best to make these as generic as possible for future use.
The OGC specs allow either HTTP Key Value Pair requests, or XML posted to the WFS and WMS servers (see
http://www.opengis.org).
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I am currently doing a GIS project as well and am looking on how to leverage cocoon in this. GeoServer looks quite promising for our needs as a WFS, combined with a cocoon front-end for caching and styling it could become a powerful combo. I guess you also had a look at geotools.org, they already have a great set of connectors that could be easily integrated into a cocoon generator.
I will have a look at the GEOID project as suggested here, although it seems quite "dead" there might be a way of reviving it :)
Do you have a need for a web frontend as well in your project? There is ofcourse JUMP and OpenMap. The UDig (udig.refractions.net) project (geotools spinoff) aims to be a universal front-end to all GIS sources, still in its inception phase though.
Kind Regards Jorg Heymans
PS yes extending abstractgenerator seems like the thing to do. But have a look at geoid first, maybe they have added a more GIS like abstraction to the generator. ( a generic GISGenerator base class would indeed be nice)
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