Summary

We had a concise introduction to the GeoServer web interface. Hopefully, you are now more confident with every section and you have a good idea of how they work.

Specifically, we covered how you can retrieve information on general configuration, server status, and logs. Next we explored the interface section where you can configure data access, create new layers, and publish them.

We briefly described how you can create workspaces and a data store from the shapefile. In this chapter we also covered service-specific configurations for WFS, WMS, and WCS. GeoServer's developers constantly take great efforts to enforce standards compliance. In this area you can tune the services and discover the vendor options that GeoServer offers you.

Finally we explored two areas greatly improved in the 2.2 release: caching and security configuration.

All of these topics will be further explored in the following chapters.

In the next chapter, we will explore data stores. You will add new data to GeoServer...