thread safe implementations

[Chris]

You don't need java to show a mapserver map in a java webapp.

What I mean by a 'java interface' is exactly that.  A java library that
allows you to make calls to mapserver and return the mapserver cgi variables
in some java object.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Umberto Nicoletti [mailto:unicoletti at PROMETEO.IT]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:41 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] thread safe implementations


Chris,
it is not clear to me what do you mean by 'java interface to mapserver'.

What I need (and have partly developed 'in house') is to show a map in a
webapp and run queries on it with a browser interface. Last time I
looked Geoserver did not implement it, but I haven't looked thoroughly.

Regards,
Umberto

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:37, Chris wrote:
> Umberto, I would like to have a java interface to Mapserver.  Have you
used
> Geoserver?  They have a java implementation of a WMS.  I'm not sure what
the
> performance is like, but it would be nice to have a similar interface to
> Mapserver.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Umberto Nicoletti [mailto:unicoletti at PROMETEO.IT]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:52 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] thread safe implementations
>
>
> Dan,
> if by creating a java implementation you mean writing a web app to deliver
> the
> same (or  subset) of the functionality the cgi does, then I am writing
one.
>
> I think I am one of the few java mapscript users around :-)
>
> Regards,
> umberto
>
> Quoting Sean Gillies <sgillies at FRII.COM>:
>
> > Dan,
> >
> > It's not clear to me what you mean by creating a java implementation
> > on your own.  Implementation of what?  Do you mean a programming API
> > like the php mapscript module?
> >
> > If this is what you mean, you should look at the Java stuff that
> > you can generate using SWIG.  In mapserver versions 4.2.4+ and in
> > the 4.4.0 beta1 there is a Java makefile under mapserver/mapscript/java.
> > It seems to work, but as I've said -- I'm not a Java user and so am
> > not beating on the Java mapscript module heavily enough or often
> > enough to say anything about its readiness.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > On Nov 3, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Dan Barron wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmm - I was really hoping someone had done (or attempted) a java
> > > implementation - I'm not versed in Zope or Python.  Well, I guess I
> > > will
> > > attempt to create a java implementation on my own.
> > >
> > > Thanks Sean.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > At 01:10 PM 11/2/2004, Sean Gillies wrote:
> > >> On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Dan Barron wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>>
> > >>> Just curious what the current consensus and recommendations are for
> > >>> creating a thread safe front end or wrapper for mapserver in either
> > >>> php or
> > >>> java? I'm assuming that mapserver is still not thread safe - that
> > >>> correct?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks!
> > >>>
> > >>> Dan
> > >>
> > >> Dan,
> > >>
> > >> I caught and fixed three sources of potential threading problems
> > >> before
> > >> the 4.2.4 release and these fixes will also be in 4.4.0.  I think
> > >> we're
> > >> close to thread safety, but it's hard to say without more testing.
As
> > >> far as I know, my ZMapServer (Zope + Python mapscript) software is
the
> > >> only thing out there that is using MapServer in a multi-threaded
> > >> environment.  It works, but is not a complete proof of thread safety.
> > >>
> > >> There remains much work to be done to in improving MapServer's
> > >> threaded performance.  The single lexer for parsing mapfiles and
> > >> class expressions is a bottleneck that will be addressed in the
> > >> future.
> > >>
> > >> cheers,
> > >> Sean
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Sean Gillies
> > >> sgillies at frii dot com
> > >> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
> > >
> >