[OpenLayers-Dev] Web-based Configuration using Mapbuilder for GSoC 2008

[Cameron Shorter]

Hello Mathew,
Nice to meet you and great to hear this project is of interest.

In my opinion, understanding of good programming practices and design is 
more important than specific language issues which can be learned as you 
code. The structure of Java is similar to Javascript which will give you 
a good start. Probably the best way to start is to read some tutorials 
and have a look at the code in existing applications. (Things like 
inheritance are done differently in javascript).
Understanding XSL will be beneficial for the Mapbuilder parts of this 
project.

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Documentation
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Developers+Guide
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Tutorials

(Plenty of pages here, I don't suggest you read them all yet)



Tharindu Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in this project and is looking for an  oppurtunity to 
> learn the technologies associated with this project. But my experience 
> with JavaScript is limited. I have manly used Java as my language and 
> worked with XML web services, spring framework, etc in Java.
>
> Will my limited JavaScript experience be a problem in this project? If 
> not, how may I gather more knowledge for this project?
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Tharindu
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