Add "About WWSK" to GeoServer

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Add an "About WWSK" page to the GeoServer Web UI as documented in this tutorial: Implementing a Wicket UI Extension

The "About WWSK" page should manifest the version, a description, and include important links to WWSK resources.

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This feature is a prerequisite for the UI needed in issue #82 (Export GeoPackage).

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Problem: Wicket HTML markup does not appear in body of page

I implemented the worldwind-gs-web module using the basic framework described in Implementing a Wicket UI Extension. When I launched the GeoServer web administration interface, my page correctly showed up in the navigation menu, and when I viewed the page, the page title and page description appeared but the body of the page defined in the associated .html markup file did not appear.

Solution: Ensure the .html resources are included in the build

Ensure the POM file includes the .html resources. My initial implementation only included the applicationContext.html and the GeoServerApplication.properties. The following snippet from the corrected POM includes all non-java files as resources.

  <build>
    <resources>
     <resource>
       <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
     </resource>
     <resource>
       <directory>${basedir}/src/main/java</directory>
       <excludes>
         <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
       </excludes>
     </resource>
    </resources>
  </build>

@zglueck See commit 7717f95

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Resolution

• Added a WWSK category to the GeoServer navigation menu
• Added an About WWSK entry to the the GeoServer navigation menu
• Added an About the NASA WorldWind Server Kit page (AboutWWSKPage) that includes the WWSK version number, descriptive text, and links to WWSK resources.