The 52°North Web Processing Service (WPS) enables the deployment of geo-processes on the web in a standardized way. It features a pluggable architecture for processes and data encodings. The implementation is based on the current OpenGIS specification: 05-007r7.
Its focus was the creation of an extensible framework to provide algorithms for generalization on the web.
More information available at the 52°North Geoprocessing Community.
- Java-based Open Source implementation.
- Supports all features and operations of WPS specification version 1.0.0 (document 05-007r7)
- Pluggable framework for algorithms and XML data handling and processing frameworks
- Build up on robust libraries (JTS, geotools, XMLBeans, servlet API, derby)
- Experimental transactional profile (WPS-T)
- Web GUI to maintain the service
The 52°North WPS provides wrappers to well-established (geographical) computation backends.
- WPS4R - R Backend
- GRASS out of the box extension
- 220+ SEXTANTE Processes
- ArcGIS Server Connector
- Moving Code backend, including Python support
Use git to clone the WPS repository:
git clone https://github.com/52North/WPS.git
Then just run mvn clean install on the repositories root directory.
The WPS comes with a variety of integration tests which are performed using Jetty.
In order to execute integration tests in a maven build, activate the dedicated profile
through mvn clean install -Pintegration-test.