Let's get started by installing and learning the basics of WPS. We'll start by installing the plugin and noticing changes in the web administration interface within GeoServer. You'll learn about the WPS standard and basic structure, and finally, we'll look at a simple WPS request.
WPS is an interface standard, similar to WMS and WFS; however, the data output by WPS is dynamically created by a process or set of processes run by the WPS server; in our case, GeoServer. Like WFS, a request can be sent synchronously or asynchronously via HTTP POST or HTTP GET. The WPS standard defines the format of the expected input and output of the processes it interfaces with, so the data that you send in needs to ...
