8.1. Installation

While processes can be used independently, the common use case is to use them with GeoServer. The process JARs are bundled with each GeoMesa data store plugin. See GeoServer Plugins for additional details.

GeoServer does not ship by default with WPS enabled. In order to use GeoMesa processes, follow the GeoServer documentation on installing the GeoServer WPS Extension.

Note

Some processes also require custom output formats, available separately in the GPL licensed GeoMesa GeoServer WFS module.

To verify the install, start GeoServer, and you should see a line like INFO [geoserver.wps] - Found 15 bindable processes in GeoMesa Process Factory.

In the GeoServer web UI, click Demos and then WPS request builder. From the request builder, under Choose Process, click on any of the geomesa: options to build up example requests and in some cases see results.