The IBM Informix Web Feature Service

The IBM® Informix® Web Feature Service (WFS) is a transaction service that acts as a presentation layer for spatial data.

WFS supports the following operations:
  • Creating new feature instances
  • Deleting feature instances
  • Updating feature instances
  • Querying features that are based on spatial and non-spatial constraints

The IBM Informix WFS includes a CGI client program and the IBM Informix server-side function for web programs to send requests to IBM Informix for geographical features. These geographical features are encoded in the platform-independent, XML-based geography markup language (GML). You can use WFS with the IBM Informix spatial data types to enable IBM Informix database servers to manage geographical features. WFS is written to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard in document 04-094, Web Feature Service Implementation Specification Version 1.1.0. For more information, see the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org.

Parent topic: Informix spatial solution architecture
Related information:
Informix web feature service for Geospatial Data