GeoServer 2.0 Beta 1 / 1.7.5

GeoServer is an Open Source server that connects your information to the Geospatial Web. With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards.

Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps/images or actual geospatial data.

GeoServers transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServers focus is ease of use and support for standards, in order to serve as glue for the geospatial web, connecting from legacy databases to many diverse clients.

GeoServer supports WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC to produce JPEG, PNG, GML, PDF, SVG, KML/KMZ, Shapefiles and more.

GeoServer is built on Geotools, the same Java toolkit that udig uses. GeoServer is a truly open community, with a well documented and modular codebase, so don't hesitate to get involved.

1. Fully compliant to WMS, WFS (1.0 and 1.1) and WCS specifications, as tested by the CITE conformance tests.Commercial grade installation, support, customization and improvements available from an eco-system of companies, non-profits, and consulting individuals.
2. Easy to use web-based configuration tool - no need to touch long, complicated config files.
3. Mature support for PostGIS, Shapefile, ArcSDE, DB2 and Oracle.
4. VPF, MySQL, MapInfo, and Cascading WFS are also supported formats.
5. On the fly reprojection, with an embedded EPSG database supporting hundreds of projections by default.
6. Web Map output as jpeg, gif, png, SVG, GeoJSON GeoRSS.
7. Excellent Google Earth Support
8. Raw vector data available as GML and zipped Shapefiles through the WFS.
9. WCS and WMS Raster support, including support for
10. Anti-aliased images.
11. Integrated OpenLayers as a default ajax viewer.
12. Standards compliant by default - no need to figure out complex configuration options just to serve basic data.
13. Streaming data readers: no memory bound limit to the amount of data that can be returned.
14. Full SLD support, both user defined (POST and GET), as well as used in styling configuration.
15. Full Filter support on all data formats in WFS (but optimized for backend format where possible).
16. Support for atomic database transactions through the standard WFS-T protocol, available on all data formats.
17. Long Transactions through a full implementation of the Locking portion of the WFS specification.
18. Innovative Validation Engine that checks inserted features against a configured set of topological and attributed based rules, to maintain backend integrity.
19. Java (J2EE) servlet-based, can run in any servlet container.
20. Designed for extension, source code thats a pleasure to read.
21. Easy to write new data formats with GeoTools DataStore interfaces and helper classes, making GeoServer the standards based interface to legacy data.
22. No need to recompile to support more data formats, GeoTools DataStores instantly plug-in to GeoServer, even showing up as an option in the configuration gui.
23. True open source development style, built by a strong community, that you can join and become a part of, tailoring GeoServer for your needs.
24. Documentation that details everything in easy to understand language.
25. Active email lists for quick support.

• [GEOS-2095] - Create BBOX Wicket Component
• [GEOS-2114] - Add capabilities link back to the home page
• [GEOS-2161] - Welcome Page
• [GEOS-2663] - move JAIInfo to be a first class part of configuration, rather than metadata
• [GEOS-2727] - Making logging configuration its own object
• [GEOS-2764] - Add a root interface for all catalog and config objects
• [GEOS-2857] - Refactor Data Store Configuration page as Data Access New Page and Data Access Edit Page to match convention
• [GEOS-2859] - Refactor web.data.coverage and web.data.datastore packages into a single web.data.store one
• [GEOS-2860] -Refactor Coverage Store Configuration page as Coverage Store New Page and Coverage Store Edit Page to match convention
• [GEOS-2964] - Clear the layers list on the add layer page when the "choose one" option is selected
• [GEOS-2988] - Remove Mortbay package from geoserver main module
• [GEOS-3025] - Port Data Store Utils and its clients to DataAccess