First, thanks for answers about WSDL stuff.
I’m currently testing Geoserver1.2RC1 for production needs. I have size limitation problem when I query my server. Here is what I’ve done. I set up some test datasets, with differents amount of data. The server is globally ok and most of the requests I sent passed successfully. I had some problems but they were mostly caused by the quality of data (shapefiles) that I imported into my PostGIS database (with shp2pgsql) After some data cleaning, everything seemed to work fine…
…until I tried to download a huge GML output (from my http://…:8080/geoserver/wfs/…)
I set up via the Geoserver web interface a WFS access for a really big dataset (219136 polygons) It reprensents the world wide coastline database I found here (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html) I used “wget” to download the GML output of the Geoserver WFS and I made 2 tries. In the two cases, I optain the same size.
-rw-r–r-- 1 nicolas geotraceagri 21123072 mai 19 15:06 gshhs2.gml
-rw-r–r-- 1 nicolas geotraceagri 21123072 mai 19 14:37 gshhs.gml
Both of the 2 files end by
[…]
<gshhs_postgis:lpoly_>0</gshhs_postgis:lpoly_>
<gshhs_postgis:rpoly_>0</gshhs_postgis:rpoly_>
<gshhs_postgis:length>0.007854</gshhs_postgis:length>
<gshhs_postgis:gshhs_>115521</gshhs_postgis:gshhs_>
<gshhs_postgis:gshhs_id>113328</gshhs_postgis:gshhs_id>
<gshhs_postgis:the_geom>
<gml:MultiLineString srsName=“http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#4326”>
gml:lineStringMember
gml:LineString
<gml:coordina
As you can see the dump is incomplete and I only got exactly 3600 polygons. No way to download more data from my Geoserver.
Is it a Geoserver limitation?
It’d be cool to have some feedbacks from other users who made tests with large datasets.
Dat’s all folks for the moment 
Nicolas Vila