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Gerald,<br>
Thanks for your Overview docs below, they are good.<br>
I've tightened up the words in the introduction a bit (less words means
it is more likely to get read).<br>
I still have a couple of comments:<br>
* Most of our readers won't know what GEOS, OGR, WPS means, so you need
to explain these terms.<br>
<br>
So in core features I'd include something like: "access to hundreds of
spatial algorithms like, ... and ... as provided by OGR"<br>
<br>
We need the 2nd paragraph to explain what WPS is and what value it has
to an end user. 52N and the standards/wps_overview.rst are not much
better - more in next email.<br>
<h1>ZOO Project<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part1.04010808.07050609@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<h2>WPS Server<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part2.08020700.00040107@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>ZOO Project provides a developer friendly Web Processing Service
(WPS) framework for creating and chaining Web Processing Services.
It supports many programming languages and comes with two demo
applications using simple
spatialtools Services Providers (a C shared library and a Python
module)
based on the GEOS and OGR Libraries.</p>
<p>ZOO is made of three parts:<br>
</p>
<p><em>ZOO Kernel</em> : A powerful server-side C Kernel which makes it
possible to
manage and chain Web services coded in different programming languages.</p>
<p><em>ZOO Services</em> : A growing suite of example Web services
based on various
Open Source libraries.</p>
<p><em>ZOO API</em> : A server-side JavaScript API able to call and
chain the ZOO
Services, which makes the development and chaining processes easier.</p>
<p>ZOO is based on a ‘WPS Service Kernel’ which constitutes the ZOO’s
core
system (aka ZOO Kernel). The latter is able to load dynamic libraries
and
to handle them as on-demand Web services. The ZOO Kernel is written in
C
language, but supports several common programming languages in order to
connect to numerous libraries and above all to simplify the Web service
end-developer’s job.</p>
<p>A ZOO service is a link composed of a metadata file (.zcfg) and the
code
for the corresponding implementation. The metadata file describes all
the
available functions which can be called using a WPS Exec Request, as
well
as the desired input/output. Services contain the algorithms and
functions, and can now be implemented in C/C++, Fortran, Java, Python,
PHP
and JavaScript.</p>
<div class="section" id="core-features">
<h3>Core Features<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part3.01060604.04010201@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Multi language WPS server</li>
<li>Simple Web Service creation and depoyment procedure</li>
<li>Simple WPS chaining with ZOO API</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="implemented-standards">
<h3>Implemented Standards<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part4.06080904.02040408@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>OGC WPS 1.0.0</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="demo">
<h3>Demo<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part5.03090700.03030505@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external"
href="http://localhost/zoo-demo/spatialtools.html">Demo using simple C
Services Provider based GEOS and OGR libraries</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external"
href="http://localhost/zoo-demo/spatialtools-py.html">Demo using
simple Python Services Provider based GEOS and OGR libraries</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external"
href="http://localhost/zoo-demo/spatialtools.html">Simple html form to
process your request to the ZOO Kernel</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="details">
<h3>Details<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part6.07080703.09090601@gmail.com"
title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><strong>Website:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://zoo-project.org">http://zoo-project.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Licence:</strong> MIT x/11</p>
<p><strong>Software Version:</strong> 1.0</p>
<p><strong>Supported Platforms:</strong> Windows, Linux, Mac</p>
<p><strong>Programing language support:</strong> C, Python, Java, PHP,
Fortran, Javascript</p>
<p><strong>Support:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://zoo-project.org/trac">http://zoo-project.org/trac</a></p>
</div>
<br>
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