The HCL Informix Web Feature Service

The HCL 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 HCL Informix WFS includes a CGI client program and the HCL Informix server-side function for web programs to send requests to HCL 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 HCL Informix spatial data types to enable HCL 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.