In this chapter, you'll learn how to use the Web Processing Service (WPS) to run geospatial processing on your data and return the results to your web app. We'll start out by installing the WPS plugin on your GeoServer instance, and you'll learn how it works. Then you'll use the WPS request builder to create some simple WPS requests. You'll explore the process chaining technique with a more complex example, and finally, we'll integrate the complex WPS request into OpenLayers.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Installing and learning the basics of WPS
- WPS request builder
- Process chaining
- OpenLayers integration
