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52°North WPS

The 52°North Web Processing Service enables the deployment of geo-processes on the web in a standardized way. It features a pluggable architecture for processes and data encodings. The implementation is based on the current OpenGIS specification: 05-007r7 .

Its focus was the creation of an extensible framework to provide algorithms for generalization on the web.

Current features

  • General Features and Compliance
    • Full java-based Open Source implementation.
    • Supports all features and operations of WPS specification version 1.0.0 (document 05-007r7)
    • Pluggable framework for algorithms and XML data handling and processing frameworks
    • Build up on robust libraries (JTS, geotools, xmlBeans, servlet API, derby)
    • Supports full logging of service activity
      • Supports exception handling according to the spec
      • Storing of execution results
      • Full maven support
  • Clients
    • Basic client implementation for accessing the WPS (including the complete XML encoding)
  • WPS Invocation
    • Synchronous/Asynchronous invocation
    • Raw data support
    • Supports HTTP-GET for Execute
    • Supports HTTP-POST for Execute
    • Supports SOAP
    • Exposes a WSDL document
  • Supported WPS Datatypes
    • GeoTiff Support
    • ArcGrid Support
    • Full GML2 support for ComplexData
    • Full GML3 support for ComplexData
    • Shapefiles
    • KML
    • WKT
  • Extensions
  • Result Storage
    • All Results can be stored as simple web accessible resource with an URL
    • Raster/Vector results can be stored directly as WMS layer
    • Vector results can be stored directly as WFS layer
    • Raster results can be stored directly as WCS layer

Future directions

  • Streaming WPS