[Geoserver-devel] Where's WAR?

Hi Folks,

I've just found your GeoServer stuff and I'm looking forward to running it.

My problem is this:

(Your doc says)
"If you have an existing GeoServer installation on your machine,"

no I don't, so...

" you should backup your geoserver/data/featureTypes directory before placing the new .war file."

I've just downloaded geoserver, geoclient and while I was at that, the wfs file too. But couldn't find any *.war to put under webapps.

Another question of mine is: is GeoServer a MapServer (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) for Java? Don't be offended! I was forced to work with MapServer, and ran into GeoServer looking for an alternative. (Gawd, do I love to program in Java.)

I was actually looking for the phrase "GeoServer is the Java alternative to MapServer". Furthermore, using SVG and servlets is all I want.

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Ugo