GDAS User Guide GDAS 0.9.1 User Guide GDAS 0.9.1 Configuration JDBC Configuration Programmer's Manual

GDAS 0.9.1 User's Guide

This guide includes:

  • instructions on configuring GDAS 091,
  • a programmer's manual,
  • and a description of the development and testing framework used.

The Geolinked Data Access Service is defined in the Geolinked Data Access Service (GDAS) Specification Version 0.9.1 (2004-05-04)(Opens in a new window). This specification has an excellent GDAS introduction.

This is a full GDAS 0.9.1 implementation. It includes support for the following optional features:

  • HTTP Post requests with Key=Value pair encoding. (GDAS 0.9.1 specification, section 6.3.2.1)
  • Http Post XML requests (section 6.3.3)
  • Service Exception Error Codes (table A.1)

This implementation returns only the 0.9.1 version of GetCapabilities.xml (section 7.1). This is compliant with section 6.2.4. GDAS_Version_Manager will do the version negotiation if more than one GDAS version is offered on your server.

Install, Configure or Modify GDAS 0.9.1

Development and Testing Environment

The following tools and technologies were used in the development of the GDAS Service:

The GDAS Service was throughly tested using: JUnit.

Installation tips for Apache XML Beans

Apache XML Beans is an XML-Java binding tool. XMLBeans uses XML schema to compile Java interfaces and classes that can then be used to access and modify XML instance data.

Once you have down loaded the latest XMLBeans, consult the readme included in the "xkit" folder for specific instructions to install XML Beans.

GDAS User Guide GDAS 0.9.1 User Guide GDAS 0.9.1 Configuration JDBC Configuration Programmer's Manual