[OSGeo-Standards] WPS brouhaha after the #geoserver meeting

[Jody Garnett]

Good morning standards buddies; in todays GeoServer IRC meeting (in 2 
hours time) we are going to look pretty hard at the WPS specification. 
It will be the last topic on the agenda so anyone interested could 
arrive a bit late.

A couple weeks ago Jo asked for a run down on how SOAP/WSDL differed 
from the OGC approach; the comparison provided in the WPS 1.0 
specification is actually pretty good. I also admire their tactic in 
using SOAP/WSDL (mostly looks like for the tools support against well 
established end points) to set up a Query / Response chain; with the 
option of the inputs and outputs being references. This is an amazing 
hack that allows the data (that is too large to fit down a  SOAP pipe 
cleanly) to have a separate data stream; managed using another set of 
standards (they mention FTP sites; but I get the impression WFS would 
also work...).

I do also have one question:
- the picture C.8 is missing (a broken link) on page 65; if anyone has 
access to the picture it would be really nice to see everything.

Jody
PS. I have some notes here: 
http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/WPS