^2013-01-07

Tom Kunicki and Ivan Suftin from the USGS visited 52°North for a week long code sprint at the beginning of December. They worked together with 52°North's Benjamin Proß and Matthes Rieke to sucessfully revamp and customize the 52°North WPS.

The following results have improved the WPS considerably.

• Largely improved testing:
  • Integration tests can be run automatically with every build of the WPS,
  • Integration tests are executed on Build Server after every commit to the SVN,
  • Updated unit tests and created new ones.
• New annotation mechanism for processes for automatic creation of process descriptions.
• Improved thread safety and concurrency behavior.
• Improved HTTP input data handling.
• Analyzed dependencies:
  • Updated old dependencies,
  • Removed unused dependencies.
• Broke up 52n-wps-server Module into smaller sub modules:
  • Separated interface definitions and actual implementations,
  • Increased flexibility for WPS extensions i.e. regarding algorithms and databases.

A new release is planned for the end of January. The current status can be found in the geoprocessing SVN.