Hi Andrea,
Sounds good! It allows a quick use in a client!
Roy
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From: Andrea Aime [mailto:[email protected]]
To: Geotools-Devel list [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:28:05 +0100
Subject: [Geotools-devel] JSON based WFS alternative for simple data: a first
rough attempt
Hi,
lately in GeoSolutions we've been looking for with a simpler alternative to
WFS
that people can implement very quickly in order to disseminate vector data in
a
SOA architecture.
The Mapfish protocol is close, but does not satisfy all of our needs,
so we augmented
it in a couple of ways making it a sort of a little, very simple json
based WFS service.
You can find a bit more information about in this blog:
http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/2010/11/simplefeatureservice-yet-another.html
as well as a bit more detailed, but still rough, specification here:
http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/SimpleFeatureService.pdf
I'd like to hear opinion about this. Long term we might be interested in
having
GeoServer not only leverage the protocol to cascade simple vector data
sources,
but also to have it implement it to allow the generation of very quick clients
for simple vector data exchange.
The code value for this protocol would not be flexibility, or religious
support
for restfulness, but simplicity: if one can implement a client or a server for
the protocol in, say, a couple of days in a common language that
already has support
for parsing/encoding json strings, we basically reached 100% of our goal.
We basically want to limit the scope so that one can get rid of the protocol
implementation phase quickly and just concentrate on what the service should
do instead.
Cheers
Andrea
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GeoSolutions S.A.S.
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55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584962313
fax: +39 0584962313
http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/
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http://twitter.com/geowolf
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Ing. Andrea Aime
Senior Software Engineer
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584962313
fax: +39 0584962313
http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime
http://twitter.com/geowolf
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