Andrea Aime wrote:
> * have a way to configure on the fly session level layers that are only
>    visible to the current user, and that do expire (and be deleted) once
>    the session expires (or after a fixed amount of time).
>    This is quite a common requirement for UI that share a server side
>    component performing some kind of processing or complex
>    filtering and that do require the result to be visible through
>    WMS/WFS but only for the current user and only for a limited
>    amount of time. An example for all, a shortest path as computed by
>    PgRouting, that needs to be displayed and interacted with using
>    an OL client, but that of course is of any interest only to the user
>    that asked for its computation.
>   
Just a quick point here - this is what SLD is for:
- generate an SLD that only shows the roads mentioned by your pgRoute
- client application can manage an SLD file that is used by the user to 
show the data they want

> * Got a couple of negative feedbacks on the layer grouping
>    functionality, people do expect the grouping to produce a tree that
>    can be then used by smart clients to show a correspondent UI tree
>    (I guess MapFish does this?).
>   
We actually do this in uDig now as well.
> Well, this is what I gathered. Comments appreciated.
>   
Thanks for the interesting email; perhaps you could gather these on a 
wiki page
Jody

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