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WMS
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The gt-wms extension offers a full featured web map server client. This allows your application to connect to a range of web map sevices, review the capabilities and issue requests such as "GetMap" and "GetInfo".

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   wms
   faq

The client code takes care of version negotiation, and even a few server specific wrinkles for you.

References:

* http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms (ogc standard)
* http://geoserver.org/ (wms implemented with GeoTools)
* :doc:`/tutorial/raster/image` (tutorial)