GeoServer developers are considering a switch to Java 6 as the minimum requirement starting with GeoServer 2.2.0: this will give us an improved API to rely on, faster development cycle and a more common development environment setup (finding Java 5 is getting increasingly difficult, especially on some platforms). The current stable series, 2.1.x, will remain [...]
As GeoServer popularity raises it’s becoming more and more common to see job offers demanding GeoServer experience as a requisite. The companies providing support for GeoServer are growing as well, providing opportunities to the brave souls that want to work side by side with the core developers. GeoSolutions, an italian company deeply involved in both [...]
Putting a public OGC server in production can be a daunting task. Dynamic web GIS requests (be they WMS or WFS) consume significantly more resources than a regular web site, making the service quite demanding in terms of memory, CPU, and bandwith consumption. When a service becomes popular, requests start fighting for limited resources and [...]
November 12, 2009 – 6:48 pm
After a nice showing at the FOSS4G Tokyo and Osaka conferences we decided the time had come for a new GeoServer language users mailing list. Taking advantage of the fact that GeoServer just got accepted to OSGeo incubation the new list is on the OSGeo infrastructure, at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoserver-jp The mailing list is a resource for [...]
August 26, 2009 – 8:07 am
We have been using JBoss extensively in the last two years in order deploy GeoServer along with some custom extensions as well as a few other proprietary application. Lately we have started to experiment a bit with JBoss 5.x and since people seem to have problems deplying GeoServer in it weput together a post on [...]
Are you developing JavaScript applications that interact with GeoServer, but having trouble with the Same Origin Policy? A prototype for a proxy built into GeoServer is coming to help you out with that. This proxy makes it possible to send HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain through GeoServer’s own domain. More information and instructions are [...]
The presentations for FOSS4G 2009 were announced this week. Looking at the presentations and workshops, one thing is obvious: GeoServer will be all over the place this year! Here’s a quick rundown of the currently scheduled events that mention GeoServer, either partially or primarily. Presentations: GeoServer application schema support: complex features for the masses Extension [...]
The latest stable GeoServer version, 1.7.5, was released with a small but critical bug that slows down rendering when a very small polygon or a line is displayed at a high zoom level (so that the displayed area is a very small fraction of the whole). The slowdown increases as one zooms in, and eventually [...]
The GeoServer Team is happy to announce GeoServer 2.0-beta1, the first beta release of the 2.0 series. The primary focus of version 2.0 is the new user interface. This interface addresses many suggestions for usability improvements, including paging and filtering of lists of information, batch removal of layers, and the elimination of the Submit-Apply-Save workflow. [...]
September 22, 2008 – 3:50 pm
We seem to be releasing something every week now, a testament to our tireless developers and input of the community. Last week, we released 1.6.5, which is still the official stable release at the time of writing. However, we are closer than ever to a stable release of the 1.7.0 branch, and today we release [...]