Developer’s Corner: Advanced usage of Geoserver Print Plugin

Blog ‐ Posted on 19.08.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear all,recently we used the Geoserver Printing Module to implement a pdf printing service for a customer application that had some compelling requirements such as:the map should be printed at the higher resolution possible, also with big paper size formats, in a resonable amount of timethe printing should include both static content (frames, text, logos) and dynamic content (title and other parameters entered by the user or depending on the current application status)the printing should include a custom legend whose content is driven by the applicationWhat we discovered is that the Geoserver printing module (thanks to the underlying MapFish print module) is a perfect tool to get...

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Introducing GeoServer Enterprise

Blog ‐ Posted on 01.07.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we are happy to announce the creation of the GeoServer Enterprise project which has been developed by GeoSolutions leveraging on the Community version of GeoServer to provide long term support releases. Superior Stability & Long Term Support ReleasesGeoServer has recently adopted a Time Boxed Release model that results in a new major release every six months (and a bug fix release of the current stable series every month).This is following closely the Release Early, Release Often  Open Source Mantra, and it's required to avoid piling up too many new features in major releases (past difficulties to release a new major were due to...

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Meet GeoSolutions at the INSPIRE Conference 2013 in Florence!

Blog ‐ Posted on 26.06.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is sponsoring the INSPIRE Conference 2013 which we'll be held in Florence from Sunday 23rd to Thursday 27th June (you can get more information at this link).GeoSolutions will be present with its own booth therefore we'll be happy to talk to you about our open source products, like GeoServer and Mapstore, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services. Moreover, looking at the program, we would like to remind you that we are also giving 2 workshops about our products:Hands - On Introduction To Create Mash - Ups For INSPIRE Services With MapStore, Sunday, the...

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Developer’s Corner: GeoServer-Manager 1.5.2 released

Blog ‐ Posted on 19.06.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,this short blog post is for sharing with you that we just released GeoServer-Manager version 1.5.2.Here's a list of most important changes:#62 Support for MetadataLinkInfo encoder / decoder#65 Support for SQL View FeatureType - VirtualTable metadata encoder/decoder#71 Missing dbtype connection Parameter in GSOracleNGDatastoreEncoder#77 Missing support for JP2K#80 Considering several layers with the same nameWe have also updated the documentation with examples on how to use the new methods.This version of GeoServer-Manager is compatible with GeoServer 2.2 and GeoServer 2.3.If you have questions or if you just want to talk to us about the using the library in your project, please, subscribe to the mailing list here. In any case, do not...

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GeoServer presentation @ FOSSGIS 2013

Blog ‐ Posted on 14.06.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we wanted to share with you the slides of the presentation we  are about to give today @ FOSSGIS 2013.It contains a brief introduction to GeoServer as well as detailed information about what's been added in the 2.2.x and 2.3.x series. Moreover the final section covers the work that's being performed right now to add new feature or enhance existing ones in the upcoming 2.4.x series. Therefore if you want to have an overview on what GeoServer can do as well as some hints on we are preparing for the near future I would recommend to have a look at...

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