Work has also been happening on a programmatic configuration API built on REST principles. RestConfig has been a community module for awhile, and should move in to extension status, with lots of feedback from users, for 1.7.3 release. This will enable nice scripting to automatically configure GeoServer programatically. The API will also form the basis of javascript configuration tools, and enable shortcuts like uploading Shapefiles and GeoTiffs.
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Funding
This roadmap item was funded by OpenGeo.
REST configuration was added to GeoServer 2.0 and is part of the OpenGeo Suite Community Edition and the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition.
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