[Mapserver-users] ASP, Java, mapscript and other fun stuff

[Ed McNierney]

Dean -

The COM work didn't "peter out" but is rather somewhat disguised.  The
chief problem with MapServer and COM is that MapServer is not
thread-safe, and (for all practical purposes) IIS expects ASP-capable
COM components to be thread-safe so they can handle the multiple
requests coming to IIS.

A lot of work has been done on thread safety in MapServer, but I haven't
heard anyone declaring victory yet.  Until that happens, creating an
ASP/COM interface would be difficult.

Installing PHP on Windows with IIS is really quite straightforward, and
is (IMHO) a simple alternative.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Taylor [mailto:dtaylor at karjeni.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:29 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] ASP, Java, mapscript and other fun stuff

Hello all,

I apologise if this has been covered before but I have searched the
archives
and can not find anything recent.

Basically what I want to do (or more accurately what my boss wants to
do) is
get a Mapscript application working with IIS without resorting to having
to
install PHP or perl and preferably without needing a java engine
installed
either.

So -
Is there a COM component around that can be used within ASP. the
archives
suggest a demand for, and some work being completed towards an ActiveX
component bit this seems to have petered out. (What happened?)

Does anybody have any compiled JAVA components to work on windows? Has
anybody successfully compiled them using Borland C++ (Command Line)? Am
I
setting myself up for a fall suggesting that I will have a go at
creating
them. (I am not a C/C++ Programmer but have done a reasonable amount of
programming in other languages).

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks
--------------------------------------------
Dean Taylor
Data Systems Engineer
Karjeni Pty Ltd
www.karjeni.com.au
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