The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have approved the first version of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard, which defines a standard for publishing, discovery and binding to geospatial processes. This means that there is standards based way for defining a web services interface for geospatial processing, such as creating a buffer, conducting a trace, or finding a shortest path.
I believe there are several open source implementations of WPS already including a Python one PyWPS and a Java version Java WPS .
WPServer isn't a WPS.
Posted by: Christopher Schmidt | February 26, 2008 at 03:50 PM
I don't think the WPServer is actually an implementation of OGC WPS.
Posted by: Sean Gillies | February 26, 2008 at 03:50 PM
Chris, Sean
Thanks for correcting me.
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff Zeiss | February 27, 2008 at 05:10 PM