FYI, the OGC standardises "Tasks" as GeoWebservices and there's a WPS = Web Processing Service standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps). Several implementations exist, eg at the 52North Open Source initiative (http://www.52n.org/).
Barend On 31-01-2008 19:28, "Paul Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In true ESRI form, they re-named something generic because it was > GIS, so it needed a different name. > Tasks == Web services > What ESRI has done that has not been done in the OSS world is > standardize the bindings for their web services so their clients can > discover and consume them on the fly. > I don't know of any non-ESRI consumers of ESRI "tasks". I also don't > know of any reason why you wouldn't want to expose your web services > as something a lot simpler, as the folks at mecklenburg did, for > example. > P > > On 31-Jan-08, at 10:16 AM, dnrg wrote: > >> Is there a FOSS equivalent to ArcGIS Server / >> publishing out geoprocessing *tasks*? Or does ESRI >> have something unique in that regard? >> >> Don't know if ArcGIS Server tasks can be "consumed" by >> anything other than Arc* clients (e.g. ArcGIS Explorer >> / Globe or ArcMap), or ESRI run-time one-off clients. >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> ______________ >> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
