Introduction

Authors:Nicolas Bozon, Gérald Fenoy, Jeff McKenna Last Updated:$Date: 2011-12-07 14:19:47 +0100 (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) $

ZOO Kernel is the heart of the ZOO. It is a powerful server-side C Kernel which makes it possible to manage and chain Web services, by loading dynamic libraries and handling them as on-demand Web services. The ZOO Kernel is written in the C language, but supports several common programming languages in order to connect to numerous libraries and models.

Using ZOO Kernel as a Web Processing Platform

ZOO Kernel works with Apache and can communicate with cartographic engines and Web mapping clients. It simply adds the WPS support to your spatial data infrastructure and your Web mapping application!

Note

If you’d like some background on the WPS standard, head to: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps

Supported Languages

ZOO Kernel supports the following programming languages, and let’s you use them to create new ZOO Services from new or existing code:

Language	ServiceProvider	DataStructure	Return
C / C++	Shared Library	maps* M	integer
Fortran	Shared Library	CHARACTER*(1024) M(10,30)	integer
Java	Class File	HashMap	integer
Python	Module File	dictionary	integer
PHP	Script File	Array	integer
Perl	Script File		integer
JavaScript	Script file	Object or Array	Array/Object

ZOO Kernel is a WPS Espresso Machine