Web Map Services - Geoserver Interaction with Java
I am working on a Java Applet, which makes use of a WMS (geoserver), which displays a specified map and then manipulates it to however is desired (zooming, panning etc). I mainly just want to know if anyone knows much about this and any techniques that can speed up the response time of the geoserver queries, so the applet is at a much more practical speed and better to use.
An example of the problem is, that when the user clicks the zoom in button, it takes about 5 seconds for it to respond with the zoomed in map as it constructs the query, and then sends it off to geoserver which then responds with the newly constructed image. It is vital that the speed of the this is as fast as possible.
Basically we just need faster response time.
Any help would be fantastic.
