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One of the major web mapping software just reached a significant milestone. The release of the open source GeoServer 2.0 has been announced!
From the announcement: "So what is new in 2.0? The first new feature that people will notice is a completely new web administration interface. Based on the Wicket framework the new user interface provides a much more integrated and streamlined application for configuring GeoServer. Wicket makes developing ajax enabled applications trivial by doing all the hard work for you. One of the powerful features of Wicket for the developer is extensibility. Wicket allows one to plug-in components dynamically. This means that developers can now easily write plug-ins and extensions for the GeoServer UI. And some have already done so. [...] The 2.0 release also hails the home coming of the “complex features” branch and true support for application schemas. [...] New features has not been the only focus of 2.0. Much work has also gone into scalability and performance in order to ensure that GeoServer continues to improve not only in terms of new features, but also that it continues to get faster."
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mpumphrey writes "The GeoServer Team would like to announce that GeoServer 2.0 is now out of beta and has moved into Release Candidate status.
In case you haven't been following our previous posts, GeoServer 2.0 contains a completely redesigned user interface, using Wicket. Based on feedback from our beta testers, the move to RC1 consisted mainly of user interface improvements. One specific new feature to point out is that ArcSDE stores have a better configuration panel, one that simplifies requests to raster coverages.
With 55 issues fixed, this first Release Candidate is deemed stable by the GeoServer Team. But we need your help to verify this, so please download this new version and try it out.
N.B. If you wish to connect GeoServer 2.0 to your existing data directory (from 1.7.x), beware that GeoServer 2.0 changes the directory structure a bit, so should you wish to switch back to 1.7.x, you will need to hand edit some files. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release! Keep sending that feedback in. Assuming no large problems are found, we should have an official release in the next month or two." See also previous GeoServer stories below.
N.B. If you wish to connect GeoServer 2.0 to your existing data directory (from 1.7.x), beware that GeoServer 2.0 changes the directory structure a bit, so should you wish to switch back to 1.7.x, you will need to hand edit some files. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release! Keep sending that feedback in. Assuming no large problems are found, we should have an official release in the next month or two." See also previous GeoServer stories below.
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Cameron Shorter writes "GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server will be competing for the title of "Fastest Web Map Server (WMS)" at the FOSS4G 2009 conference at the end of October. The Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out compares Web Map Servers in a variety of real world use cases. The performance shoot-out will see GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server compared in terms of how long they take to generate a map image, from a common set of spatial data. The data formats used will be shapefile, geotiff, ECW, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SDE on Oracle. Benchmarking scripts will be executed on a common platform running Red Hat Linux.
See the press release for more details.
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For more information about this release head to the GeoServer blog at http://blog.geoserver.org/2009/10/13/geoserver-1-7 -7-released/, or the download page at http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+1.7.7." See also previous GeoServer stories below.
For more information about this release head to the GeoServer blog at http://blog.geoserver.org/2009/10/13/geoserver-1-7 -7-released/, or the download page at http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+1.7.7." See also previous GeoServer stories below.
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