[Mapserver-users] MapServer and Java

[Harald Wehr]

Hello
> 
> My problem is that I am working on a WebApplikation based on Java. Now, we
> also will need to include geographic pictures for references purposes. The
> data are in PostgreSQL. Now, I have a working MapServer and I can bring up
> the pictures using PostGIS. But what I would like is just to get the name
> of the pictures (eq image, refimage, scalebar, legend) MapServer has
> created which I can then load into to the WebApplikation with normal GET
> calls to the server. I looked at Mapplet. But this is not really what I am
> looking for. Is there a possibility to get the names of the picture
> MapServer created?

How do you call MapServer do render the images?

As there were some threading problems when we tried to use mapserver via 
SWIG we are using the MapServer-CGI. We are calling it from java via a 
simple HTTP-Request. As mapserver-template file we are using a normal 
XML-File where the tags like [img][refimg] and so on are filled by 
mapserver and returned as HTTP-Response in java.

The response as XML can easily be accessed to get the desired 
information  filled by mapserver.

HTH

Harald
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