<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">You don't know what you don't know.</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What I know:</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">From a tomcat training video</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Web SITE</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Web SERVICE</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Web SOCKET</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Site - formatting</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Service - data</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Socket - idk. Something to do with JavaScript, AJAX and chat rooms</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">So a Web mapping/feature service shares maps/features where a wms client like openlayers or leaflet does formatting.</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Database ->WMS/WFS -> OpenLayers = website</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Is my above reasoning correct?</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Is that what a WMS/WFS MapServer is? What am I missing from this big picture model?</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sorry for noob questions. But I when I explain things to my supervisor I want to get things right.  Thanks!</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">(In the words of Einstein: If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research)</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Jeremy Kadir</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.bluespacecaribbean.com">blueSpace Caribbean</a></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The University of the West Indies</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">(868) 309 9123</div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> </div>