Step-by-step guide for 52°North SOS and SOS.js¶
This documentation is contributed by https://github.com/simonabadoiu.
This is a short tutorial on how you can make the SOS.js project run with the 52°North SOS.
52°North SOS Server Installation¶
In order to use the sos-js library and examples with the 52°North SOS, you need to deploy the SOS on a local server - Apache Tomcat for example. The SOS installation guide which describes two options for deploying the SOS on a local server:
- Build the SOS webapp and deploy it on a local server
- Download the war file and deploy it on a local server
For SOS.js you will need to package the war file using the develop profile (mvn package -P develop) so that the SOS 1.0.0 binding is included. Therefore you must build the application and cannot simply download the war file.
SOS.js Deployment¶
Now that you have the SOS running on localhost, you can start deploying the sos-js application. Here are the steps that will lead you to an working sos-js application:
- Read the SOS.js readme file on github
- Clone the SOS.js github repository
- Download an HTTP server - for example Apache HTTP Server
- Copy the SOS.js project on the server - for the Apache server, you have to copy the files in the
wwwfolder - The latest version of the 52°North SOS is set up for CORS, so you can simply disable the proxy behaviour. In order to do this, you have to call the
SOS.Proxy.disable()function, see Proxy Configuration. - Modify the test html documents from the examples folder, in order to make this work with your locally deployed SOS.
- In almost each html test file, an URL is set for the SOS client. You have to change this URL with one that points to your local SOS.
- Your local URL could look like this: http://localhost:8080/52n-sos-webapp/sos/kvp
After correctly passing through all this steps, your SOS.js application will look similar with the SOS.js demo.