MapServer with Cold Fusion?

[Paul Hastings]

well the "other" program would be a coldfusion app. we use
WDDX extensively in app to app communication (site to site,
cf to cf, cf to js, cf to VB/ODE, cf to the girl-next-door). i got
most of the CGI-cf working this weekend (including simple
identifies) but the URL limitations are going to bite eventually.
unless i'm missing something WDDX is one way around it.
the arcIMS cf connector is just a CFX tag (C++) that spews
XML at the mapserver.

cf is quite extensible either using itself, c++ or java. my knee
jerk reaction to cf communicating with "strange" apps is WDDX.
so embedding WDDX serializing/deserializing just seemed the
way to go. though we'll be definitely looking at mapscript as well.

yes please, any info/ideas you have are most welcome.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: "Doyon, Jean-Francois" <Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca>;
"'Fawcett, David'" <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us>; <paul at tei.or.th>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: MapServer with Cold Fusion?


Guess I need to do some reading. WDDX is a data transfer/sharing standard
correct? That would still require another program to share data from if I
understand
things (which I may not). While that might solve some problems, isn't a
tighter
integration more desirable? How extensible is ColdFusion's scripting
language?
You'd definitely want to pattern things after the main MapScript or
MapScript/PHP
implementations.