What you need for this book

You will need a working instance of the following types of software:

• Tomcat
• GeoServer
• PostGIS

The recipes work both with Linux and Windows operating systems, so you may select the one you prefer.

All the software used in this book is freely available, mostly as open source projects. Hardware requirements for development purposes are not very high. A relatively modern laptop or desktop will be enough to run the examples. Source code and data used in this book are freely available on the Packt Publishing site.