Just to clarify -- I guess I really just want to use whatever libraries are 
available from geoserver to render PostGis queries -> KML.

SImple as that. OR should I be looking elsewhere (other than GeoServer?!)

D

On 7 Feb 2011, at 14:05, Darrell Berry wrote:

> Hi -- I'm not quite sure if this falls into he Users or Developers list, so 
> if this is the wrong place, please let me know!
> 
> I have an existing Java-based web service app (POJO via Axis2 on Tomcat) 
> which now needs some geospatial data rendered up to a web client as WMS (in 
> fact as KML)
> 
> I've had a look at the docs and there looks to be a pretty serious learning 
> curve to get from the GeoServer tutorial samples to a working service.
> 
> I'm looking for a tutorial app which demonstrates the minimum I need to do to 
> go in Java from a JDBC PostGIS ResultSet of geodata to a working WMS layer I 
> can return to my client. GIven that I already have a working webservice, I'd 
> prefer to be using geoservre libraries to acces the PostGIS backend and 
> produce the response, than have to build an actual Geoserver plugin, but I'm 
> not sure if that's even an option? I am, as you can probably tell, a 
> Geoserver newbie...
> 
> My desired wrokflow looks like this:
> 
> 1. My webclient interacts with my service. The webclient doesn't send a 
> geospatial query, but other data from which the backend needs to compute a 
> geospatial response
> 
> 2. As a result, in my webservice backend, I'm computing, for example
> 
> SELECT ST_AsText(roads_geom) AS geom
> FROM roads
> WHERE
>  roads_geom && SetSRID('BOX3D(191232 243117,191232 243119)'::box3d,-1);
> 
> and getting that back as a JDBC ResultSet. 
> 
> 3. I then need the results of THAT query returned to the calling web service 
> as KML. 
> 
> SImple, yes?
> 
> All help appreciated. This feels like a FAQ, but if it is, I'm obviously 
> looking in the wrong places!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> D
> 
> 
> 
> 
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