GeoNetwork in da cloud!

Blog ‐ Posted on 30.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is pleased to announce that GeoNetwork is now available on the Standing Cloud infrastructure.Standing Cloud provides services that make it quick and easy to run open source applications in the cloud allowing users to focus on putting applications rather than worrying about the servers that run them. Standing Cloud provides point-and-click application deployment and management on your cloud of choice with instant access to hosted applications. Focus on portability ensures no providers lock-in, so moving applications to a different cloud provider is a matter of a single click, at any time, for any reason.Between available cloud partners, we have:Amazon...

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Developer’s Corner: Turning GeoServer into an ImageServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 23.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we would like to briefly talk about some of the lastest developments we have performed at GeoSolutions in order to turn GeoServer into an ImageServer. So far GeoServer has not been able to publish single non georeferenced images as WMS layers, it always required a valid EPSG for specifying a well-known geospatial coordinate reference system. Lately, we have been working with OpenGeo on an application whose goal was to allow users to view non-georeferenced images through a WebGis based on OpenLayers. We decided to take the risk to modify the GeoServer and allow it to serve pure imagery via...

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GeoServer upgraded to 2.0.3 release on Standing Cloud!

Blog ‐ Posted on 17.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is pleased to announce that GeoServer has been upgraded from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (check the announcement for  2.0.3) on the Standing Cloud infrastructure. Notice that we have GeoServer 2.1 series on the radar for the next round of upgrades.Standing Cloud provides simple, powerful, services that make it fast and easy to run open source applications in the cloud allowing users to focus on putting applications at work in the cloud rather than worrying about the servers that run them.  Standing Cloud makes it point-and-click easy to deploy and manage applications on your cloud of choice since it  provides instant access to host applications...

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Developer’s Corner: GeoServer-Manager, super-simple Java client library for GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 11.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we just wanted to spend a few words about a Java library we have just released under the MIT license for talking to the GeoServer REST interface. We have named this library GeoServer-Manager (yeah, a lot of brainstorming behind that name, really...).Basically the goal of this library is to provide a simple yet usable way to interface a Java application with the GeoServer that would actually ease the work of the developers hiding away from them the relative complexity of the GeoServer REST interface without introducing a complex communication layer. Here you have some basic facts about the library: minimum set of external dependencies, namely...

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Preview: GeoRepository, advanced authorization manager for GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 04.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,in this post we would like to introduce an application we have developer here at GeoSolutions in order to cope with the requirements coming from enterprise deployments in terms of Authentication and Authorization for GeoServer; its name is GeoRepository.Whoever has been facing the technical problems involved with deploying GeoServer inside an enterprise infrastructure following the SOA paradigm knows that in such context Authorization and Authentication capabilities are usually provided by external services in order to centralize such feature, fostering reuse of existing capabilities, minimize risk of duplication of functionalities as well as to avoid duplication of users' credentials. Moreover in such...

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