[mapguide-psc] Strawman Roadmap Posted

[Paul Spencer]

Haris,

MapGuide Fusion is designed to be a flexible templating approach to  
building MapGuide OS/Enterprise applications.  It separates UI design  
from code and is built more-or-less on the WebLayout with some  
additions and changes.  It is primarily built in javascript, but has  
the capability to have server-side scripts that work directly with  
the web tier API.  Currently we are implementing server-side stuff in  
PHP but it is designed to allow for other backend technologies in the  
future.

There is a single javascript file that is included, and a simple  
javascript call to kick-start the process.  The WebLayout is loaded,  
parsed, and every Command is associated with an element in the page  
through ids.  If the id exists, then another javascript file is  
loaded that implements the Action of the Command.  Each command is a  
separate piece of javascript and is independent (more or less) of all  
others.

Everything tries to be as simple as possible with most stuff  
happening through CSS and standard HTML (unobtrusive javascript).

We are building this to be an open source package with the  
possibility of including commercial components (like light-weight  
editing) and for offering commercial support through our Premiere  
product.

I've shown it to Bob and he indicated that he would be willing to  
consider it as a replacement for the existing viewer capability.

Jason has contracted DM for a couple of applications based on  
MapGuide, and we are using Fusion for these applications.  Hopefully  
by January, the basic toolkit will include all the existing  
capabilities of the ajax viewer and a bunch of other stuff.

I think it is feasible to consider it for inclusion in a 1.2 release,  
even if it doesn't immediately replace the ajax viewer - this would  
require changes to Studio and synchronization with the Enterprise  
product for instance.

There are also some considerations for backwards compatibility,  
including figuring out how to upgrade existing applications with  
minimal effort.

Cheers

Paul

On 1-Nov-06, at 4:06 PM, Haris Kurtagic wrote:

> Jason,
>
> what is Fusion?
>
> Haris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:01 PM
> To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-psc] Strawman Roadmap Posted
>
> Cool, you're getting more features into the service pack than the
> release.  Or are you moving to a different release designation? :)
>
> I'd really like to see some more details on these projected  
> features (I
> guess through RFCs).
>
> The Windows install process needs some more work besides the FDO
> providers.  For instance being able to specify alternate locations for
> the server install, making alternate locations work properly for  
> the web
> extensions, allowing specification of folders (repository, log, etc)
> during installation...
>
> I think we're going to be reliant on the Autodesk package creation
> mechanism for the near future, but it would be great if we could take
> responsibility for this at some point.
>
> I'd also really like to see Fusion get into 1.2.  Paul, do you think
> that DMSG is prepared to go ahead with this (and an RFC) for 1.2,  
> or are
> we looking at a later release?
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Bray
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:09
> To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-psc] Strawman Roadmap Posted
>
> All,
>
> For our meeting tomorrow I have posted a straw man roadmap.  You can
> find it here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MapGuide_Roadmap.
>
> Bob

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