[Java MapScript HOWTO] updated

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:00, Sean Gillies wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2004, at 3:46 AM, Umberto Nicoletti wrote:
>
> > Some time has passed since my last howto on java mapscript for
> > mapserver
> > 4.0.
> > For those of you that still interested in it I have written
> > and updated howto for mapserver 4.2.3 (latest stable).
> > A patch has been proposed to the mapserver dev team as bug ID:
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=876
> >
> > The howto is available at the following address:
> > http://www.unicolet.org/mapserver/compile.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Umberto
> >
> >
>
> The patch has been accepted with some very small modification for both
> CVS HEAD (4.3) and branch-4-2.  Thanks to Umberto, building Java
> mapscript
> on Unix/Linux is as simple as
>
>     cd mapserver
>     ./configure ...
>     make
>     cd mapscript/java
>     make
>
> I think that the major thing lacking in Java mapscript now is a bridge
> between the MapServer error stack and Java exceptions.  I'm not a Java
> user and can't justify the time to lead on this, but am happy to help
> as much as I can.  Looking at the Python exception mechanism in
> mapscript/python/pymodule.i and carefully reading the SWIG docs would
> be the place for someone to start.
>

That is already on my checklist (after docs about running mapserver on
tomcat). I definitely need that sorted out to avoid java core dumps on
servlet container.

Regards,
Umberto

> cheers,
> Sean
>
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