[Geoserver-devel] Re: [Geotools-devel] gt2WMS moving to GeoServer project

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Just a very simple consideration:


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Subject: [Geotools-devel] gt2WMS moving to GeoServer project

> 4. Distribution and Marketing.  These questions are not pressing, but how
> do we want to present the wms?  Should we make it available as a
> stand-alone wms?  Keep the downloadable war format?  Integrate it
> completely into GeoServer?  Create seperate installation instructions?
> Many of these questions depend on how much we integrate, but even if we do
> integrate a lot we can still have them live as slightly different projects
> in user's minds, just ones that inter-operate quite well.

IMHO, wich is only derived from my experiences in developing server side
GIS apps for last 3 years, in all of them there are situations where
definitely a pure
WMS or a pure WFS doesn't is enough. Instead, one must take each ohter
to solve a current problem. I mean, until now I was using ArcIMS,
extensively
working with its AXL format, to query images as to retrieve geometries,
working
on it, and applying bussines logic as a whole.

And since ArcIMS is not the best product I've seen, having a product that
can
manage both needs helps a lot. I would be a mess to use one product to
quering maps and another (or at least one not well integrated with the
datasets working on)
for working with features at a lower level.

That's why mi position is to get the greater integration level possible.

regards,

Gabriel