Developer’s Corner: JAI-Ext, the Open Source replacement for Oracle JAI

Dear Readers, it is our pleasure to introduce a new project developed at GeoSolutions, JAI-EXT. JAI-EXT is a project based on the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API, which is a Java framework for high performances image processing. The main feature of JAI is the ability to process image using deferred execution and tiling, which provide high performances when elaborating input data. Anyway JAI is no more supported by its original developers and has a very restricting license. Since in many of our project we heavily rely on JAI (one for all, GeoServer), at GeoSolutions we decided to embarque in this effort with the JAI-EXT project to completely replace...

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Meet GeoSolutions at the INSPIRE Conference 2015 in Lisbon!

Dear All, we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is exhibiting at the INSPIRE Conference 2015 which will be held in Lisbon from 25h to 29th of May 2015 (you can get more information at this link). GeoSolutions will be present with its own booth therefore we'll be happy to talk to you about our open source products, like GeoServer and Mapstore, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services. Moreover, looking at the program, we would like to remind you that we are also giving a workshop about GeoServer: Web mapping with OGC services and GeoServer: an introduction, Thursday, 28...

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Meet GeoSolutions at GEOBusiness Show 2015 in London

Dear All, this year GeoSolutions will be attending the GEOBusiness Show 2015  a leading geospatial event hold in London, UK on the 27th and 28th of May 2015. In particular, we'll be present with our own booth (N20, check the floor plan here) to present our products and offer and to talk to potential partners. In addition, we will deliver a workshop during the conference: GeoServer Introduction  [ROOM SF2, Thursday 29 May from 13:15 to 13:45] this workshop will provide the necessary information to get started with GeoServer as well as pointer to reference use cases for various fields. You can find the...

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Color blending and compositing implemented for GeoServer 2.7

Dear Readers, in this post we want to introduce a new mapping ability available in the GeoServer 2.7.x series: color blending and compositing. The notion of color blending and compositing has been borrowed from the SVG specification, and it's commonly available in image manipulation programs such as Gimp/Photoshop, and has been available, with different types of limitations, in open source GIS software MapServer, QGis and Mapnik. GeoServer own implementation is sort of a sum of the above software abilities, in that it provides both Porter-Duff compositing, useful for masking, color blending, great to more naturally blend multiple colored levels, and base compositing layers, very important to...

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GeoServer workshops and presentations at FOSS4G-NA 2015

Dear Reader, GeoSolutions is proud to announce that Andrea Aime, our technical lead on GeoServer will attend this year FOSS4G North America in San Francisco to give a workshop and presentation on GeoServer itself. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport  between 9th and 12th of Marc2015. Specifically the 9th will be dedicated to workshops (here is the workshop schedule) while presentations will be given on 10th, 11th and 12th. The schedule for our workshop is as follows: GeoServer, an introdutction for beginners with Andre Aime, 9th of March 2015 from 9 to 12 - The workshop will provide the attendees with an in-depth introduction to the GeoServer Open...

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