Web Services
deegree provides geospatial webservices based upon Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and INSPIRE Network Services specifications. deegree supports:
Core Features
WFS
- Implements WFS standards 1.0.0, 1.1.0 and 2.0.0
 
- Fully transactional (even for rich data models)
 
- Supports KVP, XML and SOAP requests
 
- GML 2/3.0/3.1/3.2 output/input
 
- Support for GetGmlObject requests and XLinks
 
- High performance and excellent scalability
 
- On-the-fly coordinate transformation
 
- Designed for rich data models from the bottom up
 
- Backends support flexible mapping of GML application schemas to relational models
 
- ISO 19107-compliant geometry model: Complex geometries (e.g. non-linear curves)
 
- Advanced filter expression support based on XPath 1.0
 
- Supports numerous backends, such as PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, MS SQL Server, Shapefiles or GML instance documents
 
WMS
- Implements WMS standards 1.1.1 and 1.3.0
 
- Extensive support for styling languages SLD/SE versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0
 
- High performance and excellent scalability
 
- High quality rendering
 
- Scale dependent styling
 
- Support for SE removes the need for a lot of proprietary extensions
 
- Easy configuration of HTML and other output formats for GetFeatureInfo responses
 
- Uses stream-based data access, minimal memory footprint
 
- Nearly complete support for raster symbolizing as defined in SE (with some extensions)
 
- Complete support for TIME/ELEVATION and other dimensions for both feature and raster data
 
- Supports numerous backends, such as PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, Shapefiles or GML instance documents
 
- Can render rich data models directly
 
WMTS
- Implements Basic WMTS standard 1.0.0 (KVP)
 
- High performance and excellent scalability
 
- Supports different backends, such as GeoTIFF, remote WMS or file system tile image hierarchies
 
- Supports on-the-fly caching (using EHCache)
 
- Supports GetFeatureInfo for remote WMS backends
 
CSW
- Implements CSW standard 2.0.2
 
- Fully transactional
 
- Supports KVP, XML and SOAP requests
 
- High performance and excellent scalability
 
- ISO Metadata Application Profile 1.0.0
 
- Pluggable and modular dataaccess layer allows to add support for new APs and backends
 
- Modular inspector architecture allows to validate records to be inserted against various criteria
 
- Standard inspectors: schema validity, identifier integrity, INSPIRE requirements
 
- Handles all defined queryable properties (for Dublin Core as well as ISO profile)
 
- Complex filter expressions
 
WPS
- Implements WPS standard 1.0.0
 
- Supports KVP, XML and SOAP requests
 
- Pluggable process provider layer
 
- Easy-to-use API for implementing Java processes
 
- Supports all variants of input/output parameters: literal, bbox, complex (binary and xml)
 
- Streaming access for complex input/output parameters
 
- Processing of huge amounts of data with minimal memory footprint
 
- Supports storing of response documents/output parameters
 
- Supports input parameters given inline and by reference
 
- Supports RawDataOutput/ResponseDocument responses
 
- Supports asynchronous execution (with polling of process status)
 
 
Implemented Standards
- OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.0.0, 1.1.0 and 2.0.0
 
- OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.1.1 and 1.3.0
 
- OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) 1.1.0
 
- OGC Catalogue Service-Web (CSW) 2.0.2
 
- OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) 1.0.0
 
- OGC GML 2.12, 3.0.1, 3.1.1 and 3.2.1