Services
After you've added some data sources and created layers with those sources, you will want to share these with Services. In this section, you can access the general configuration for each service exposed. You can also selectively disable them. By default, all services are enabled.
WMS
Web Map Server (WMS) is an OGC standard to publish data as maps. The GetMap operation as defined by the standard, lets a client request maps as images, for example, a png or jpeg file.
From this section, you can describe your WMS service, inserting information that will be published by the capabilities of the service. You can also control resource allocation as we have seen in Chapter 2, Getting Started with GeoServer, or set the quality parameters for produced pictures.
