Deegree is een Java API (Application Programming Interface) voor GIS applicaties. Een grote blokkendoos dus met Java class componenten waarmee je (of iemand die wél kan programmeren ;-) ) ongeveer elk denkbare GIS applicatie zou moeten kunnen bouwen. Met behulp van de blokjes is al een en ander kant-en-klaar beschikbaar: een hele lijst aan OGC webservices is al standaard beschikbaar.

Deegree is beschikbaar onder de Lesser GPL licentie; de software is op moment van schrijven nog niet te downloaden van de site, maar dat zal vast niet lang meer duren.

Meer informatie is te vinden op: http://www.deegree.org/

Van de site van deegree:

After more than 5 years of ongoing development, the deegree project is the most extensive implementation of OGC/ISO standards in the field of Free Software. deegree evolved from the project JaGo and has been published under the terms of the Lesser GNU Public License (L-GPL) of the Free Software Foundation. Widespread improvements of the architecture, enhancements of the object model and the support of Java 5 guided to deegree to the second major release.

In deegree2, there are OGC WebServices for Web Map Service (WMS) 1.1.1, Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.1.0, Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.0.0 and Catalogue Service Web-Profile (CSW) 2.0.0 available. WMS and WCS are the official reference implementations of the Open Geospatial Consortium; WFS and CSW are fully transactional. CSW supports ISO19115/ISO19119 Application Profile and DE-Profile 1.0.1.

Furthermore, there are implementations of the OGC pre-standards of Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Web Terrain Service / Web Perspective and View Service (WTS/WPVS) as well as Web Processing Service (WPS). The security package contains a user and rights management system, owsProxy as a security facade of OGC Web Services and Web Authentication (WAS) and Web Security Service (WSS) definied in Spatial Data Infrastructure of NRW.

Deegree iGeoPortal standard and portlet edition are the browser-based clients for the mentioned OGC WebServices. deeJUMP provides a SDI-enabled Desktop-GIS.

Meer informatie op: http://www.deegree.org/