10 Introduction to Spatial Web Services

This chapter introduces the Oracle Spatial and Graph support for spatial web services. A web service enables developers of Oracle Spatial and Graph applications to provide feature data and metadata to their application users over the web.

This chapter contains the following major sections:

Note:

If you are using Spatial and Graph Web Feature Service (WFS) or Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) support, and if you have data from a previous release that was indexed using one or more SYS.XMLTABLEINDEX indexes, you must drop the associated indexes before the upgrade and re-create the indexes after the upgrade.

For more information, see Index Maintenance Before and After an Upgrade (WFS and CSW).