[Geoserver-users] Geoserver and Webservice

GeoServer GeoServer User
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Hi,
I have read Geo’ docs but I can’t find anything that relate with WebService. Somewhere tell that Geoserver is a webservice? Is that true?
I have try but I can’t find the WSDL file, the description file of all functions in a web service, of Geoserver!
If GeoServer is a webservice, can you tell me how to expose the functions of Geoserver ?
Thanks much,
Hung.

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Sorry.
I didn't send it to list.

On 4/5/06, Zdeněk Vráblík <vrablik@...84...> wrote:

Hi,
GeoServer doesn't implement WebServices this time. Protocol consist in
xml strings over
HTTP.
client request -> xml over HTTP POST/GET -> xml parser -> geoserver ->
create xml response
and send response back to client.
Nice picture is here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Get+Feature+Example

Zdenek V.

On 4/5/06, hung ngole <ngolehung84@...54...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have read Geo' docs but I can't find anything that relate with WebService.
> Somewhere tell that Geoserver is a webservice? Is that true?
> I have try but I can't find the WSDL file, the description file of all
> functions in a web service, of Geoserver!
> If GeoServer is a webservice, can you tell me how to expose the functions of
> Geoserver ?
> Thanks much,
>
> Hung.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo!
> Messenger with Voice.
>
>

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hung ngole wrote:

Hi,
I have read Geo' docs but I can't find anything that relate with WebService. Somewhere tell that Geoserver is a webservice? Is that true?
I have try but I can't find the WSDL file, the description file of all functions in a web service, of Geoserver!
If GeoServer is a webservice, can you tell me how to expose the functions of Geoserver ?

Well, WebServices are a way to let software applications expose some functionality to be used by remote software via XML and HTTP, and, yes, there are many style of WebServices: the W3C way (SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, ...) [1], the REST way [2], and, coming to GIS, the OpenGIS consortium way [3] that GeoServer happens to use.

Hope this helps.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
[2] http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html
[3] http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Regards,

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