Mapbuilder + Mapserver without WMS?

[Richard Greenwood]

On 10/9/07, Rodrigo Del C. Andrade <rodrigo.andrade at digitro.com.br> wrote:
>
>
>      Greetings,
>
>      I have been sniffing around the web lately trying to find a good ajax
> client to enhance our in-house developed client in our mapping application
> (Google maps spoiled a lot people). Anyway, I found Mapbuilder and thought
> it would fit the bill because it works on Tomcat and has allows all the
> visual customization we need.
>      However, I cant find in the docs any mention to it running alongside
> Mapserver with a non-WMS setup. I dont think we could refactor our java
> mapscript code to make it
>  work reliably trough a WMS connection. Not to mention no one over here ever
> worked with WMS before, so add in the cost/time of training someone.
>
>      So, has anyone ever successfully used Mapbuilder sending parameters to
> mapserver trough a good old fashion POST and fetching the resulting map
> directly at the file system, or is that line a research a dead-end and I
> should start thinking about migrating to a local WMS?
>
>      Thanks!
>
>      Rodrigo


OpenLayers support the 'Classic" MapServer protocol.

Richard

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