WS01: ZOO-Project Introduction Workshop

Trainers: Gérald Fenoy (GeoLabs SARL), Nicolas Bozon (Esri France), Venkatesh Raghavan (Osaka City University)

Schedule: Monday Morning 9-13

Places: 20

Abstract:

The ZOO-Project is an open source software which provides a WPS (Web Processing Service) compliant and developer-friendly framework to easily create and chain OGC Webservices. The ZOO-Project is made of four parts. ZOO-Kernel is a powerful server-side C Kernel which makes possible to manage and chain Web services coded in different programming languages. ZOO-Services is a growing suite of example Web services based on various Open Source libraries. ZOO-API is a server-side JavaScript API able to call and chain the ZOO Services, which makes the development and chaining processes easier, and ZOO-Client is a JavaScript library to interact with WPS servers from your web applications.

The ZOO-Project will first be presented, along with some details on using the WPS (1.0.0 and 2.0.0). The participants will first learn how to setup the ZOO Kernel and to get a WPS server running in a few simple steps. Some basic services will be presented to the attendees to give them the capability to reuse them later in their own application. Then, they will learn how to develop simple WPS service using the Python language, trough simple programing exercises. A ready to use client will be used to interact with the available WPS Services and the one to be developed. Participants will finally learn how to chain the different available WPS Services using the server-side Javascript ZOO-API. The final client application, based on ZOO-Client, will provide a user interface to first search and display of shortest path, then display the corresponding profile.

Tags: GDAL, python, OGC Web Services, ZOO-Project, WPS, Mapserver, JavaScript

Additional Information:

Minimal knowledge in JavaScript and Python is required to participate.