Re: [Pyogclib-developers] had a look into deegree?

[Sean G. <sgi...@fr...>]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 11:08  AM, 
Jea...@CC... wrote:

> Jan,
>
> Indeed! I had forgotten about those guys, though I'd heard about them 
> before
> ....
>
> It would be good to study their implementations and class structures 
> and so
> on, as we probably could learn a lot from it all, no sense 
> re-inventing the
> wheel. I see there's a JavaDoc interface for example that we could 
> take a
> look at. I'd be interested in seeing how they handle certain WFS 
> issues,
> such as Schema generation ...
>
> Personally, I'm more interested in clients for Python than servers 
> right
> now, as that's where my need lies. So I'd like to further push the WFS
> Client to be as flexible as possible, it's kind of restricted in it's
> support of Schema parsing right now ... I have some funky ideas I'll 
> post
> soon as far as that goes ... I notice Deegree has released a WMS client
> implementation though ! I wonder if they're going to do a WFS one ?? :)
>
> If we were to write pure OGC Python servers, I'd be really tempted to 
> look
> at the Twisted framework however ... any of you have experience with 
> it ?
>
> J.F.
>

I like Twisted!  PyOGCLib + MapScript + Twisted would make a great WMS 
server,
as Twisted doesn't require thread-safety of mapscript.  Twisted is also 
quite
symmetric, and is good for creating clients as well.

I don't think we should write a server that is distributed with 
PyOGCLib.

Sean