[Java MapScript HOWTO] updated

[Sean Gillies]

On Sep 20, 2004, at 3:46 AM, Umberto Nicoletti wrote:

> Some time has passed since my last howto on java mapscript for
> mapserver
> 4.0.
> For those of you that still interested in it I have written
> and updated howto for mapserver 4.2.3 (latest stable).
> A patch has been proposed to the mapserver dev team as bug ID:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=876
>
> The howto is available at the following address:
> http://www.unicolet.org/mapserver/compile.html
>
> Regards,
> Umberto
>
>

The patch has been accepted with some very small modification for both
CVS HEAD (4.3) and branch-4-2.  Thanks to Umberto, building Java
mapscript
on Unix/Linux is as simple as

    cd mapserver
    ./configure ...
    make
    cd mapscript/java
    make

I think that the major thing lacking in Java mapscript now is a bridge
between the MapServer error stack and Java exceptions.  I'm not a Java
user and can't justify the time to lead on this, but am happy to help
as much as I can.  Looking at the Python exception mechanism in
mapscript/python/pymodule.i and carefully reading the SWIG docs would
be the place for someone to start.

cheers,
Sean

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