ActiveX version of Mapserver

[Brent Fraser]

Chris (and everyone),

I think the software development philosophy Steve
has been following is good: generic  C / CGI usable
on Unix and NT.

Some kind of scripting would give more control for
a more dynamic mapping environment, and it
would be nice to have COM, CORBA, and MapScript
support.  And it would make sense to have a common
definition for the object interface to be consistent
(if possible), as long as it wasn't too much effort.

On a related note, I seem to be getting some interest
in using MapServer to produce a background
"basemap", but also having some client-end functions
for creating points, lines, polygons in a server-side
database.  I've been thinking about using Java on
the client and either JDBC, Java servlets or RMI
on the server.  Or maybe MapServer is fast enough
to get the feedback if there was a database (Oracle)
connection.  I see that Trevor and Cameron have
similar interests to this.

Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: <imap at chesapeake.net>
To: mapserver-users <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: ActiveX version of Mapserver


>
>
> About this ActiveX version... Are we talking about
> setting up COM (Component Object Model) for mapserv?
> I think that MapScript may be for the benefit of
> perl users, but the object access part of Steve's
> MapScript design may be extensible in the Microsoft
> world.   Steve, can you give us a heads-up about the
> construction of Mapscript (components/structures/
> objects/access/etc) to get some ideas?  I'd like to
> see the ActiveX component evolve with the same
> idea as MapScript.  It should be very similar one would
> hope.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Chris (imap at chesapeake.net)
>
>
>
> Brent Fraser wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> > To: Banister Trevor <TBanister at SpaceImaging.com>
> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: ActiveX version of Mapserver
> >
> > > I've done some work along the ASP line.  I've only implemented
> > > a few functions, mostly for reading and writing the members
> > > of the map and layer structures.  I've put further ASP work on
> > > hold until I see what Steve comes up with MapScript (and I'm
> > > busy working thru a bug in setting map extents with ASP)
> > >
> > > If you want some more details, let me know...
> > >
> > > Brent Fraser
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Banister Trevor <TBanister at SpaceImaging.com>
> > > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:35 AM
> > > Subject: ActiveX version of Mapserver
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've heard rumors about someone compiling Mapserver as an ActiveX
ASP
> > > > component. I've thought of doing this myself, but if someone has
already
> > > > done a port I won't re-invent the wheel. Does anyone know of such an
> > > effort,
> > > > and if the code or binary is available?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Trevor Banister
> > > >
> > >
>