A closed platform is of limited use and impales its adoption by the community. Therefore, the TAO platform allows for the interoperation with external processing systems, and also for a standardized access by external clients. To accomplish this, it relies on several OGC WPS – compliant components, each having a specific role:
- WPS processing component: this is the TAO component that can invoke external processors via a WPS interface;
- WPS server: this is the TAO component that allows external clients to invoke TAO workflows. The other TAO processing components are not exposed via WPS interfaces. Instead, only public workflows are exposed as WPS capabilities of this WPS interface.
