Markus,
Could you give me some more details of exactly what you're doing?
There are two major differences between udig and geoserver WMS:
a) udig spatially indexes shapefile (you can do this in geoserver too)
b) udig uses a special renderer just for shapefile that about 25% (?)
faster
48000 features). If I load this via GeoServer, it seems to hang for a
while
and then draw the features in batches. The entire lot takes about 2min
30
secs. Then I found some reference mentioning PostGIS to improve
performance.
This sounds like you are using the WFS - this is sending an XML
representation of the features to udig. The bottleneck here is almost
certainly either network latency or udig's GML parsing speed.
Geoserver can produce GML very quickly - but its big and slow to parse.
How big is your shapefile and .dbf file?
NOTE: if its network latency, then you can have geoserver compress the
GML output before it sends it. (this will take a little programming)
You should be having Geoserver server images - not actual features
(unless you're actually requiring actual features). If you find that
you cannot parse the GML objects fast enough you could always add an
output module to geoserver that serves them up in an easier-to-parse
format.
dave
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