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

[Jody Garnett]

Well no feedback on the standards list; the developers from 52N were 
able to attend (and supply the missing diagram from WPS 1.0 
specification). The meeting logs are long (and available on the 
geoserver site).

Nice to see some initial direction towards collaboration on all sides.
Jody
> 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
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