Mapscript programming

[Lowell Filak]

The following message was sent by Juan Carlos Castaneda
<juan.castaneda at NUIGALWAY.IE> on Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:29:49 +0100.

> Dear List,
> 
> I am newbie to Mapserver and I was wondering where to start programming.
> I need to create a web application but I don't want to use the CGI
> Mapserver. I would like to program my own application -apply my own
> security, querying other resources,...
> I have been reading the documentation available about Mapscript and as
> far as I could figure there are 2 flavours: PHP and those languages that
> use SWIG. Both access the Mapserver C API.
> 
> I was wondering if you could give me pros/cons of both aproaches (PHP vs
> SWIG). I have
> felt like if you are going with SWIG you are pretty much on your own,
> while the documentation for PHP is better. I have some background
> programming in Java - servlets and I would like to continue programming
> on that. Are there any differences between Linux/Windows?

Juan,

I think there has been a substantial amount of work done in regards to
javamapscript (swig) recently. Others should be able to comment on that
further.

Lowell