[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-324) Support gt2 Features as an output format.

Support gt2 Features as an output format.
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         Key: GEOS-324
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-324
     Project: GeoServer
        Type: Wish
  Components: WFS
    Reporter: Chris Holmes
Assigned to: Chris Holmes
    Priority: Minor
     Fix For: 1.4

GML is a bulky format, but a WFS is not in fact completely tied to GML. It can support other output formats. It could be nice to support returning serialized (or maybe pickled, need to experiment) Features directly to the client. This would obviously only be useful for clients written in gt2, but there are a decent number of people doing exactly that. Returning Features directly should save a lot of space, and time, since no transformations to and from formats would be needed. This could also be a nice udig + geoserver optimization - if you're working against a geoserver server on udig it could default to the faster transport mechanism. Trevor Stone has done some work with serializing Features. See http://geotools.org/SerializableFeatures

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