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Overview
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Twitcher Components
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Twitcher consists of the following main parts:

OWS Security
   A security layer to protect service access with x509 certificates and OAuth2 tokens.
OWS Registry
   A registration service with an OpenAPI (Rest) interface to register OWS services for the OWS proxy.
OWS Proxy
   A service which acts as a proxy for registered OWS services.

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