GeoServer 2.0 Beta 1

GeoServer 2.0 Beta 1 offers you a powerful Open Source server which lets you to connect 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.

Major Features:

1. Transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing.
2. 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.
   
3. Supports WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC to produce JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML/KMZ, GML, PDF, Shapefiles and more.
4. More information on specific features of GeoServer can be found here, and some samples of GeoServer in action are in the gallery.
   Be 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.
   

Enhancements:

• Sub-task
• [GEOS-2136] StatusPage
• [GEOS-2151] Style Manager
• [GEOS-2152] Style Editor Page
• [GEOS-2154] Workspace/Namespace Editor
• [GEOS-2945] make a CatalogRemovalHelper that allows to list dependent resources and to actually remove them
• [GEOS-2946] Add checkbox selection concept to GeoServerTablePanel
• [GEOS-2947] Cascade delete Styles
• [GEOS-2948] cascade delete layers
• [GEOS-2949] cascade delete stores
• [GEOS-2950] cascade delete workspaces
• [GEOS-2951] Move actions above the table in Layer page
• [GEOS-2952] Move actions above the table in Store page
• [GEOS-2990] Generic datastore page should provide a dropdow to change namespace, not a textbox (like the old UI)
• [GEOS-2991] DataAccess/CoverageStore add/edit pages should allow to change the workspace the store it attached to
• [GEOS-2993] in case a connection error occurs (state the wrong path) a "null error message" appears in the UI, nothing gets logged in the logs...
• [GEOS-2994] just specifying a windows full...

• JDK 1.4 or above