If OGSA-DAI is deployed onto Tomcat then it supports a data source servlet. This allows the data exposed by an OGSA-DAI data source to be exposed via a servlet and so accessed by any HTTP client. Examples of the utility of the servlet are described in Chapter 91, Writing effective clients - using the data source servlet for delivery. This page outlines information from a server administrator's perspective.

The servlet name and path, i.e.

is defined in a web.xml file in Tomcat.

You can change the name of the servlet by changing the value in the url-pattern field. For example, changing the url-pattern value to be to be servlets/DataSourceRetrievalServlet would mean that the connection URL would be:

There is no support for secure access to data exposed via the data source servlet. This could lead to privileged data being accessible to non-privileged users.