1.相关历史
GeoServer was started in 2001 by The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a non-profit technology incubator based in New York.
基本核心工具：
Those involved with GeoServer founded the GeoTools project, an open source GIS Java toolkit. Through GeoTools, support for shapefiles, Oracle databases, ArcSDE integration, and much more was added.
实现OGC的相关标准
Around the same time as GeoServer was founded, The OpenGIS Consortium (now the Open Geospatial Consortium) was working on the Web Feature Service standard. It specifies a protocol to make spatial data directly available on the web, using GML (Geographic Markup Language), an interoperable data format. A Web Map Service was also created, a protocol for creating and displaying map images created from spatial data.
其他组件
Other projects became interrelated. Refractions Research created PostGIS, a free and open spatial database, which enabled GeoServer to connect to a free database. Also, MetaCarta originally created OpenLayers, an open source browser-based map viewing utility. Together, these tools have all enhanced the functionality of GeoServer.
2.完全是开源软件 GNU
https://github.com/geoserver/
3.安装 windows
参考：https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/installation/win_binary.html
The other way of installing GeoServer on Windows is to use the platform-independent binary. This version is a GeoServer web application bundled inside Jetty, a lightweight and portable application server. It has the advantages of working very similarly across all operating systems and is very simple to set up.
Make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your system. GeoServer requires a Java 8 or Java 11 environment, as provided by AdoptOpenJDK Windows installers.
4.使用
参考：https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/gettingstarted/web-admin-quickstart/index.html
Using the web administration interface
GeoServer has a browser-based web administration interface application used to configure all aspects of GeoServer, from adding and publishing data to changing service settings.
5.数据管理
参考：https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/index.html
GeoServer connects to and publishes data from a wide variety of sources.
6.style设置
参考：https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/webadmin/index.html
This section will detail how to work with the styles pages in the Web administration interface.
