hello, sorry for the newbie questions.
If I edit manually the catalog.xml file, how do I tell geoserver to apply and reload the changes without having to use the geoserver web administration?
thanks.
Currently there is no way, short of making a script using curl or
something similar to generate a faked request to the admin console.
This wiki page should help you out with that approach.
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Alternative+for+reloading+the
+Geoserver+catalog
We also have a REST API for modifying the catalog in the works; it's
currently scheduled to be available as a plugin for the next release.
Some documentation for that module is also available on the wiki:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/RESTful+Configuration+API
Hope this helps.
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David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/