Not much to add besides that I support the upgrade, so here is my +1. I am
sure folks like Gabriel or someone closer to gwc can provide more useful
feedback.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Gabriel Roldan <grol...@opengeo.org> wrote:
> Great stuff, reviewing the patch right now, be back with insights/approval.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Andrea Aime
> <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Chris Holmes <chol...@opengeo.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 - awesome work. And I'd love to see it in 2.3.x
> >>
> >> Was there a reason other than lack of time to not make the jdbc
> connection
> >> easier to use? Like it seems to be a much more user friendly way would
> be to
> >> let users first have an option choose a datastore connection they've
> already
> >> established, instead of picking drivers and the like. And then to show
> the
> >> current thing as an advanced option. What's there now is definitely a
> great
> >> first step, and more than sufficient to get in right now. But am just
> >> curious if there are blockers to making things easier, or was just lack
> of
> >> time.
> >
> >
> > Lack of time was the number one issue, but there is more.
> >
> > First off, the general design of GWC pointed in that direction, GWC is
> more
> > low level, more oriented towards the control of the little
> > details (e.g., for how rich the integration GUI in GeoServer is, it still
> > lacks some important options for production grade tile serving, like
> > controlling etags and expiry, or setting up cache masks to avoid caching
> > tiles over the sea).
> >
> > Also, for how much user friendly the current datastore support in
> GeoServer
> > is still lacking a number of advanced options that one
> > can only control by manipulating the JDBC URL, like, try working over an
> SSL
> > connection to a postgis database or
> > add one of the many options the Oracle JDBC driver supports (memo to
> myself,
> > we really should provide another connection
> > mode allowing the advanced user to provide a full JDBC URL also for
> spatial
> > database connections).
> >
> > Given that this is a enterprise feature (why setup a connection to an
> > external database if clustering is not needed?)
> > I believe it's better to err on the side of more control, instead of the
> > side of easier setup, and that was also agreeing with
> > the general lack of time context in which I've made this GWC 1.4
> > integration.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Also what's the state of documentation with this stuff? Again, no
> blocker
> >> at all, best to get things in. We may be able to help out some with
> docs.
> >> Things like when each of the locks might make sense, to help people
> choose,
> >> and docs on the quota store configuration.
> >
> >
> > There is documentation in GWC regarding this, but I did not manage to
> make
> > any for GeoServer
> > so far, spent good part of the time I had lately to make the integration
> > possible to start with:
> > http://geowebcache.org/docs/current/production/index.html#clustering
> >
> http://geowebcache.org/docs/current/configuration/diskquotas.html#disk-quota-storage
> >
> > The final deadline for new features is in 7 days, I don't believe I'll
> > manage to add documentation:
> > is there anyone interested in helping out?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
> >
> >
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