[Qgis-developer] WPS server

Luca Delucchi lucadeluge at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 12:46:32 PST 2012


2012/12/3 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
>
> I don't think PyWPS would be a good choice for WPS server implementation.
> From a broader view, PyWPS does the same thing as SEXTANTE does: it allows
> users to run processes and it allows developers to provide custom processes.
> The main difference is that PyWPS processing is meant to be triggered by WPS
> requests, while SEXTANTE processing may be triggered by anything (currently
> mainly GUI). On the backend side, PyWPS supports GRASS, while SEXTANTE
> offers much more by default. It's true that one could attach SEXTANTE to
> PyWPS and let QGIS server call PyWPS all the time, but that would bring just
> additional limitations.
>

I don't know really well PyWPS, but I think that you can use more that
GRASS for sure at least R.
Other WPS Server as ZOO or 52north and maybe also GeoServer permit to
the user to create services with a lot of libraries, I'm using ZOO and
I can use much more than Sextante ;-)

> Regards
> Martin
>

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ciao
Luca

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