Configuring your data
In Chapter 3, Exploring the Administrative Interface, we covered the administration interface. Specific to data configuration, we explored workspaces, data sources, and layers. In this chapter, you will use them to publish new data sets.
Do you remember we already added a shapefile? We are now going to add some more data using different formats. GeoServer could access some data formats by default, while others require optional extensions and libraries. The following screenshot shows the default format GeoServer is shipped with.
According to the types of spatial data we defined in Chapter 1, GIS Fundamentals, you'll have two types of data sources in GeoServer: vector and raster.
