[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-623) Cascading WMS: include remote WMS layers as virtual DataStores

Cascading WMS: include remote WMS layers as virtual DataStores
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         Key: GEOS-623
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-623
     Project: GeoServer
        Type: New Feature

  Components: Global
    Reporter: Ralph Buchfelder
Assigned to: dblasby

allow GEOSERVER to run as a cascading (WMS) service for security and interoperability reasons

create a local DataStore which connects to a remote WMS' layer file

either manually by editing a datastore configuration with remote parameters
or automatically by acting as a wms client (therefore receiving and parsing remote getcapabilities xml)

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