Threadsafety/Exceptions for Java Mapscript?

[Sean Gillies]

On Apr 11, 2005, at 3:49 AM, Umberto Nicoletti wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 03:33 -0500, Daniel Caldeweyher wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> first of all I would like to thank all the developers for this great
>> piece
>> of software.
>>
>> I am working on a GIS project for my University using JavaMascript on
>> Tomcat 5.5.7. My supervisor would to like to go online with my
>> solution in
>> a month or two for public testing. In the beginning 'public' means
>> open to
>> all University members, other Stakeholders and for presentations.
>> However
>> in the (near) future it is very likely that my project will be made
>> available to the general public, initially targetted at South East-
>> Queensland only, but the whole of the state and an Australian-wide
>> installation are likely to follow. That is why I gave scalablity and
>> maintainability a high priority and chose Java Servlet/JSP/struts as
>> the
>> development basis.
>>
>> When I started Umberto Nicoletti's website indicated that "A patch
>> that
>> enables exceptions in mapscript, so that mapscript errors don't crash
>> your
>> JVM (and Tomcat) anymore." will come soon. Well its two-three months
>> later
>> now and I was wondering when it will be released? It is very
>> important to
>> me as I would not be very happy if i had to port my entire site to
>> php or
>> python.
>>
>
> The patch is in mainstream mapserver, I'll update my web site asap.
> There has been some discussion on thread safety lately so make sure you
> check out the archives: search the subject for 'Java MapScript issues
> Servlet'.
>
> You could find this link interesting (or search bugzilla for threads)
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/buglist.cgi?
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> Regards,
> Umberto
>

Daniel, Umberto,

I just committed a change to CVS related to bug 1203

   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1203

I'd appreciate it very much if you would read the discussion there, and
if possible, update your CVS mapserver and help me test.

cheers,
Sean

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