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+REST client library to interact with GeoServer (http://www.geoserver.org)
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+The purpose of this project is to hold a REST client library to interact with GeoServer; a requirement for this library is to depend as less as possible on external libraries. This library aims at being lean and mean.
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+For more information see this page:
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+http://code.google.com/p/geoserver-manager/
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