GeoTools is a GIS toolkit that is used for OGC-based projects via GeoAPI interfaces. It includes two great SLD based renderers and tools for raster access and reprojection as well as plugins for Shapefile, ArcGrid, ArcSDE, Postgis, OracleSpatial, MySQL, and many more.
GT2WMS is a Java Servlet implementation of the
OpenGIS Consortium's Web Map Server
specification. Maps can be served either from
static files (Shapefiles) or from a database
(PostGIS).
Re: What's the big deal?
> Last I looked at GeoTools for this kind
> of thing (giving a geographic identity
> to host names) it just seemed to boil
> down to telling me what th...