foss4g 3.2

Whew; first presentation of the afternoon WPS session was a tough one. Presentation compared the wps implementation (similar to my WPS Testing) using several clients:

• deegree xml client, 52 deegree xml client
• 52North plugin (for JUMP and uDig)
• 52North Open Layers app
• XMLSpy (for xml compliance)

And the results were not pretty; really hoping we can have a WPS shootout next year.

I really liked seeing the number of WPS clients listed in the presentation; very exciting.

I found the various implementations very helpful when I signed up to the mailing lists; they provided test servers and were good and answering my xml questions etc...

Second presentation is from deegree.

foss4g 3

Going to get out of order a bit. WPS track this morning was great! And I was so sad to miss the WPS BOF yesterday.

52N was amazing with a open layers + graphical workflow layout browser app (that defines a new process that can be executed). Both GeoServer and 52N had running demos (which is always brave); ZooWPS went through the structure of their project and seem to be taking on more languages in the future.

The big news for me was the creation of a vendor neutral public email list via the OGC for WPS instances to collaborate. One of the results of the OGC WPS test bed I participated in this year was the lack sanity for a client application trying to connect and communicate with each.  Indeed you are reduced to GeoJasn because GML requires 2 execution paths (one for schema and one for the data conforming to the schema).

I hope to set up a WPS dinner this evening; thus far GeoServer and 52N are represented; I need to hunt down Zoo project and others...