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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefano Iacovella
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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an opensource server written in Java that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data. This book will guide you through the new features and improvements of GeoServer and will help you get started with it. GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you the impetus to build custom maps using your data without the need for costly commercial software licenses and restrictions. Even if you do not have prior GIS knowledge, you will be able to make interactive maps after reading this book. You will install GeoServer, access your data from a database, and apply style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps. Then you follow a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. You will explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as PostGIS, and Oracle. Going ahead, you can display your data on web-based interactive maps, use style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. You will walk away from this book with a working application ready for production. After reading GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will be able to build beautiful custom maps on your website using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Avoiding service faults


GeoServer is a great piece of software, and core developers hit bugs every day, enhancing existing functions and delivering new capabilities. Despite all of this work and the careful configuration of your site, failing is always a risk. It is just a matter of time before you encounter a failure preventing your GeoServer from delivering maps. In the simplest case, it will only affect some specific requests; more often, it will halt it for a while, and, sometimes, you will need to restart it to get it working again.

It happens to almost all software applications that you will have worked with, either proprietary or open source, free of charge or very expensive. Avoiding faults is out of your control, but you should learn how to manage them to avoid service interruptions.

A high availability or fault-tolerant configuration is what you need. Indeed, this is a very common approach in software deployment, and what you will learn here is best practice for any kind of software...