[Zoo-discuss] About FOSS4G 2009 and ZOO Project

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi,

Soeren Gebbert wrote:
...

>> Firsty, the possibility of writing code in pure C or C++, PHP,
>> python, Java, Fortran and in fact any compiler (or Runtime
>> environment, if I am not mistaken, Gerald) and running it
>> as WPS is what makes ZOO powerful.
> 
> AFAIK this can be done with the other WPS implementations too,
> in case the algorithms are available as stand alone programs (like
> grass modules or
> the gdal programs).

yes, standalone programs can be run using system call in other
WPS implementations, but unfortunately you cannot get any intermediate 
results of status of the program execution except the final output
and you cannot manage the process execution.

Best

Venka