[postgis-users] alpha GT2 Web Map Server with PostGIS support

[James Macgill]

Hi all

This is a quick shout for some testers with PostGIS experience, I have just 
put a ready built copy of the GT2 wmsserver module onto the sourceforge 
file section for download.

The download consists of a single war (web archive) that you should be able 
to drop into your favorite servlet engine and start serving maps.

You can download it from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/geotools/wmsserver.war?download

The current code supports Shapefile and PostGIS datasources, the others 
(GML, MapInfo etc) should be easy to add so expect them soon.

Once you have the war file installed you should be able to open the index 
page with something like: http://localhost:8080/wmsserver/
And see a sample page with some maps in it and some instructions.

When unpacked you will find a number of files, the layers.xml is the main 
config file whilst the styles and maps folders contain the sample data that 
can be mapped out of the box.  You will find an example layer definition 
for a PostGIS layer in the layers.xml file, you should just need to plug 
values for your db into it.

The wmsserver module is experimental and will not remain within the GT2 
codebase long term as it falls outside the remit of 'toolkit' though it may 
become a project in its own right in the future.

Its a useful thing to put out however as, if you take a look at the source 
code, you will see examples of how datasources, rendering, filtering and 
styling work.  You can find the source code on CVS or on the 
gt2-src-snapshot.tar.gz nightly archive if you look in 
geotools2/geotools-src/wmsmodule/src

It would be great to hear from people who do manage install it and also any 
problems from people who can't.  It's not been tested against very many 
PostGIS databases yet so I'm particularly interested in feedback from 
members of this list.

All the best

James


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James Macgill
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