Ok, in our organization (Tambov city's municipal computing center)
GeoServer is used to serve data collected by our GIS department. My
work is to write some sort of GIS client (both web-based and desktop)
for presentation of this data. Of course, it would be much simplier to
adopt some of the existing code, but they just want it to be closely
integrated with their communal databases so it is plain faster to
write all from the scratch then to navigate through labyrinths of
someone else's code. It is not likely that this work will be in public
access any time soon due to that stupid "security" considerations and
other ugly stuff.
Please consider the use of uDig ( plug plug ) - it has a strong plugin
based system that you can use to implement your application (and avoid
most of the GIS data wrangling). We have used it already for a couple
clients, it is LGPL so you don't have to worry about making your changes
public etc ....
