Geoserver - a migration story!! – Part 1

The why’s and the wherefores!!

Over the past few weeks I have been working on moving our GIS mapping solution into geoserver, a popular open source WMS/AFS server. We have been using a custom built WMS/WFS server that grossly neglected everything that the WMS specs talks about. I mean, I’m talking willfull disobedience of everything the WMS spec was talking about. It was so tightly coupled with our application that when circumstance arose for us to use the same server for another application, we just fell flat on our face. That prompted us (of course with a little monetary support from our customer) to decide to shift to geoserver, which was a major re-architecture of the way we were doing GIS.

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