The OGC pioneered the concept of geospatial web services and is now extending protocol support to WSDL and SOAP, which will harmonize the OpenGIS specifications with the larger IT web services environment. 

The IONIC work will encompass the entire OpenGIS specification baseline including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Catalog Service – Web profile (CS-W).  This work will extend the leadership role that IONIC played with GE Network Solutions in generating the earliest WSDL/SOAP binding for WMS in 2002.  As part of this work, IONIC and other OGC members will be contributing to product compliance tests under the OGC’s Conformance & Interoperability Test & Evaluation (CITE) that address compliance with the new WSDL/SOAP versions of the OpenGIS specifications.

WSDL/SOAP interfaces are considered a high priority by the OpenGIS community because of their requirement in the U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), Defense Information Systems (DISA) architecture, and European IT architectures.

IONIC currently offers a SOAP WMS interface in RedSpider Web 3.1.  The new WSDL/SOAP bindings will be included in upcoming releases of the RedSpider product line, including RedSpider Web, RedSpider Studio, and RedSpider Catalog.

For more information on IONIC products, go to www.ionicredspider.com.

IONIC is the world leader in interoperability location-based services, web-mapping, distributed geo-processing and imagery.  The IONIC RedSpider product line is the most robust and complete suite of OpenGIS/ISO web services available today.  IONIC is an active member of OGC and ISO TC211, with the biggest team of specialists dedicated to interoperable products in the world, and extensive expertise in the development of Java components for innovative, flexible and interoperable distributed applications.  IONIC geo-enables thousands of users to connect to the emerging interoperable spatial data infrastructure.