GeoFence is a java web application that handles authorization rules, integrating with GeoServer using the interface described in GSIP 57.

GeoFence provides a GWT-based user interface to administer the basic objects and the authorization rules.

Furthermore, some REST API have already been implemented that allows the administration of some ancillary data.

GeoServer will send authorization queries to GeoFence using a configurable internal protocol (by default it uses Spring remoting over HTTP).

GeoFence is split in 3 main modules:

• The Core module contains the model, the persistence logic and the service logic
• The GUI module contains the GWT GUI used to administer the authorization rules and the related objects
• The bridge/probe module is the wrapper that converts the Rule logic into the authorization objects required by GeoServer. This last module provides a jar file that will be plugged into GeoServer. The GeoFence code base includes a module that will build a GeoServer .war file ready to be integrated with GeoFence.

• GeoFence .war file
• Latest GeoServer 2.1.x GeoFence integration module .jar file (todo: add refs to ancillary libs)
• Latest GeoFence integration configuration file

• How to build GeoFence
• How to configure GeoFence

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