Presentation from FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham

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State of GeoServer
Andrea Aime, GeoSolutions
Jody Garnett, Boundless
Justin Deoliveira, Boundless

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Presentation Guide
• It has been two years since FOSS4G 2011
o GeoServer is a very active project
o We do not have time to cover everything
• For each new feature in this presentation
o Sponsor or organisation funding the work is on the left
o Version number the feature is available is on the right
2.4.x2.3.x2.2.x
Community
Extension
Release

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Presentation Guide
• GeoServer – project updates and news
• Web Map Service
• Web Feature Service
• Web Coverage Service
• Tile Services
• Web Process Service
• Catalogue Service Web – new!
• Extensions
• Community

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GeoServer
Project Updates and News

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OSGeo Incubation
+
2.2.x

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Time Boxed Release Model
• A long gap before 2.2 was released
o Something had to change for our customers
• One bug fix release every month
o Bug fixes
o Some minor new features backported from the
development branch, selected by the PSC
• One major release every six months
o new features
• Q: GeoServer 3.x?
o When we’ll break backwards compatibility J 2.2.x

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2012 2013
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
DevelopmentStable
Time Boxed Release Model
2.2.5
2.2.4
2.2.3
2.2.2
2.2.1
2.2
2.3.5
2.3.4
2.3.3
2.3.2
2.3.1
2.3
2.4-RC2
2.4-RC1
2.4-beta
2.1.4
2.3-RC2
2.3-RC1
2.3-beta
2.4

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Security Framework
• See geoserver.org for Christian's Master Thesis
o Flexible authentication for stateless web services
• Why use GeoServer Security?
o Don't list layers in GetCapabilities that cannot be used
o Layer name/description may be sensitive information
• Core Feature of GeoServer Web Services
o Deep Integration with Web Services
o Fine grain control of Services and REST API access
2.2.x

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Security – Authentication
• Plugins Provide Many Integration Options
2.2.x

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Security – Password Storage / Policy
2.2.x

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Security – Authorisation
• User / Group / Role
• Define "Service Chains" for Services and REST
2.2.x

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Security –LDAP Authorisation
2.2.x
Say something about
Active Directory too
here

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REST Configuration
• Continues to be Wildly Popular
• REST Configuration Improvements
o Manage Web Services
o Check Installation Information
§ Installed version of GeoServer and GeoTools
§ List available Extensions and community modules
• Create and manage image mosaics
o Describe internal structure (attributes)
o Harvest new granules
o Remove existing ones
2.3.0

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Virtual Service per Workspace
2.2.x
GeoServer
WMS WFS WCS
nurc
configuration
web services
tiger sf cite
cite
WMS WFS WCS
WMS
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?request=GetCapabilities
WMS CITE
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wms?request=GetCapabilities

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Enable Services per Workspace
2.2.x

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Custom Settings per Workspace
2.2.x

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Styles and Groups per Workspace
2.2.x

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Translations
• Thanks to Frank Gasdorf – and Friends!
o https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/geoserver_stable
2.4.0

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• New KML
o Now for WFS too!
o New Implementation
o Faster
o KML Schema Compliant
o High fidelity output for Marks
(icon service)
• New Shapefile
o WFS SortBy support
o Code clean up
o Share significant portion
of code with database
backends
New Implementations
2.4.0

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WMS
Web Map Service

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Time and Elevation
• support for both raster and vector
• custom dimensions
2.2.x

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Time and Elevation
...&request=GetMap
&time=2001-08-01/2001-09-01
...&request=GetMap
&time=2003-08-01/2003-09-01 2.2.x

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Custom Dimensions
2.3.x

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Rendering Transforms - Contour
<FeatureTypeStyle>
<Transformation>
<Function name="contour">
<Function name="parameter">
<Literal>levels</Literals>
<Literal>1000</Literal>
<Literal>1250</Literal>
<Literal>1500</Literal>
...
2.2.x

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Rendering Transforms – Heat Maps
2.2.x

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Rendering Transforms
Surface interpolation
2.2.x

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Rendering Transforms
Point clustering
2.2.x

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CSS – Compact Styling for Humans
2.4.x

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CSS – SLD Generation
2.4.x

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CSS
2.4.x

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CSS – Reference, Tutorial, Cookbook
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/extensions/css/index.html 2.4.x

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WMS Layer Group Publishing (Finally!)
Nesting
Capabilities tree
2.3.x

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WMS - Advertised Layers
2.3.x

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WMS – TurboJPEG encoder
• Faster JPEG encoder
• Supported also on Win 64
Com

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WFS
Web Feature Service

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WFS 2.0 - Paging
...&request=GetFeature&startIndex=5&count=6
2.2.x

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WFS 2.0 – Stored Queries
<wfs:CreateStoredQuery>
<wfs:StoredQueryDefinition id='bbox'>
<wfs:Parameter name='AreaOfInterest' type='gml:Polygon'/>
<wfs:QueryExpressionText returnFeatureTypes='topp:states'>
<wfs:Query typeNames='topp:states'>
<fes:Filter>
<fes:BBOX>
<fes:ValueReference>the_geom</fes:ValueReference>
<gml:Envelope>
<gml:lowerCorner>${x1} ${y1}</gml:lowerCorner>
<gml:upperCorner>${x2} ${y2}</gml:upperCorner>
</gml:Envelope>
</fes:BBOX>
</fes:Within>
</fes:Filter>
</wfs:Query>
</wfs:QueryExpressionText>
</wfs:StoredQueryDefinition>
</wfs:CreateStoredQuery>
...&request=GetFeature&storedQueryId=bbox
&x1=-180&y1=-90&x2=180&y2=90
2.2.x

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WFS 2.0 - Joining
<wfs:GetFeature xmlns:wfs='http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0'
xmlns:fes='http://www.opengis.net/fes/2.0' xmlns:gs='http://geoserver.org'
version='2.0.0'>
<wfs:Query typeNames='gs:Forests gs:Roads' aliases='a b'>
<fes:Filter>
<fes:Intersects>
<fes:ValueReference>a/the_geom</fes:ValueReference>
<fes:ValueReference>b/the_geom</fes:ValueReference>
</fes:Intersects>
</fes:Filter>
</wfs:Query>
</wfs:GetFeature>
2.2.x

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App schema
• What is it? publish a specific data product
o Data is "mapped" to fit your application schema
§ GeoSciML 3.1 GeoSciML 3.2
§ Complex INSPIRE services
• Improved Functionality
o SortBy
o GML 3.2 "Complex" Features
o WMS
• Faster
o Makes use of "Joining" (for supported DataStores)
o Large non denormalised views/tables
• New and Experimental
§ time series encoding
§ WFS 2.0 support (except paging)
2.2.x
2.3.x
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XSLT output format generator
• Alternative for generating specific data product
o Approach "only" transforms output
o Query is against original dataset
XSLT
Engine
Custom
XSL Transform
GML
2.X/3.X
Plain text
Custom XML
HTML
KML
2.3.x

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WCS
Web Coverage Service

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WCS 2.0
• Congrats OGC
o Core protocol has been simplified
o Additional Functionality Supplied by Profiles
o Finally a version of WCS users will love
• GeoServer Web Coverage Service
o WCS 2.0 Implementation
• Community Modules
o NetCDF Support
o Earth Observation Profile
o REST extension to manage mosaic
Com

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NetCDF support
• NetCDF-CF support
• Both input (WMS/WCS)
• And output! (WCS)
• Tested on a number of sources
o Polyphemus/Ascat/Gome/IASI/MSG2
Com

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Tile Service
WMTS, WMS-C, etc…

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GeoWebCache Integration
2.2.x
Improved integration/UI

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GeoWebCache Integration
2.2.x
Improved integration/UI

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GeoWebCache
• Disk Quota and Disk Quota Clustering
2.3.x
GWC 1 GWC N
Quota DB
Tile storage
Load balancer
…

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WPS
Web Processing Service

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Asynchronous WPS
2.2.x

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Process Filtering
By group
Individual
2.3.x

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Scripting (processes and more)
Python Groovy
JavaScript Ruby
JSR-223
Com

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CSW
Catalog Service Web

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CSW Architecture
2.4.x
CSW
MODULE
GetCapabilities
DescribeRecord
GetDomain
GetRecord
CatalogStore
(Pluggable)
Internal GeoServer
layers
Read records from
file system
Legacy catalog
Write your own!

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Simple Store
• Dublin Core XML Files
2.4.x
Simple store Dublin core
XML files with Dublin
core records

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Internal CatalogStore
• Configure Layers with minimal metadata
2.4.x
Configured layer:
name, title, abstract,
minimal metadata
Configured layer
Configured layer
…
GeoServerInternal
CatalogStore
ISO 19115
ISO 19119
ISO 19139
Dublin core
…

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CSW Metadata Mapping
2.4.x
@fileIdentifier.CharacterString=id
identificationInfo.AbstractMD_Identification.citation.CI_Citation.title.CharacterString=title
identificationInfo.AbstractMD_Identification.descriptiveKeywords.MD_Keywords.keyword
.CharacterString=keywords
identificationInfo.AbstractMD_Identification.abstract.CharacterString=abstract
$dateStamp.Date= if_then_else ( isNull("metadata.date") , 'Unknown', "metadata.date")
hierarchyLevel.MD_ScopeCode.@codeListValue='http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset'
$contact.CI_ResponsibleParty.individualName.CharacterString='GeoServer'
@identifier.value=id
title.value=title
creator.value='GeoServer Catalog'
subject.value=keywords
subject.scheme='http://www.digest.org/2.1'
abstract.value=abstract
description.value=strConcat('description about ' , title)
date.value="metadata.date"
type.value='http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset'
publisher.value='GeoServer'
Configurable property
mapping
ISO
Dublin Core

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CSW
2.4.x
Sample DC record

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2.4.x
Sample CSW record

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Assorted
Extensions
More Optional GeoServer functionality

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Importer – Easy GeoServer Setup
2.4.x

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Importer – Select Files
2.4.x

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Importer – Publish
• Style is Generated for Each Layer
• Optional Actions for Common Tasks
2.4.x

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INSPIRE
• WMS and WFS Extension
2.3.x

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Monitor
• Collect Status on GeoServer use
• Monitor Query API
o REST API producing Excel, CSV, ZIP
2.3.x
GeoServer
WMS WFS WCS
Monitor
Core
Monitor
Hibernate
Database
clients
web services
Monitor Query API

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Community
Ideas and Experiments

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Earth Observation
• Web Coverage Service 2.0 Profile
o Coverage datasets
group coverages, avoid large caps documents
o DescribeEOCoverageSet
drill into contents
o DescribeCoverage
Earth Observation metadata, time support,
sensor description
• Web Map Service EO profile
Com

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Earth Observation Wizard
• Quickly build WMS EO compliant groups
o Browse/Footprints/Parameters/Flags
Com

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GeoTools Improvements
• GeoTools raster API overhaul
o Improved Access to Rich Raster Content
o NetCDF
• GeoTools Feature Collection / Bounds
o Support 3D Coordinate Reference Systems via WMS
o Straight Quality Assurance Run
• Native Geometry for SQL Server
2.4.x

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Thanks!
Questions?