New Direction

For now, the portlets with the Open Layers map and the problems with deploying portlets to the Web Space Server instance on our virtual server are going to be put on the back burner. Our new direction is to more fully develop the half-dozen Geospatial SOAP Service Client portlets we prototyped several months ago. These portlets provide a user interface to the Geospatial SOAP Web Services that are running on one of our team's virtual services.







Sample services include a geoid height calculator, a map-based distance and bearing calculator, country names service and coordinate parse service.

As I investigated the changes made to the services on the virtual server I noticed that each of the services now has a RESTFul interface. Looking at the example Query Form and RESTful calls that are provided it appears that it should be much easier to create portlet clients that make RESTful calls. That is something I've not done before.

Apparently, when I build the NetBeans project I leave off the part where the wizard is used with the WDSL to create the code that looks up the web service. I can just mimic the sample Query Form in the view.jsp of the portlet and directly make a call to the servlet that is providing the RESTful interface.

Let's go create a new NetBeans project and see what happens.