[OpenLayers-Dev] Summer of Code: Why two 'web-based configuration' ideas?

[Cameron Shorter]

PS. I suggest discussing this during the Mapbuilder team meeting in 1.5 
days at:

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Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Chris,
> Your comments are valid and it would probably help to have an IRC 
> discussion to discuss this in real time. (I note that I don't have a 
> detailed understanding of Lorenzo's WMC builder code).
>
> In a nutshell, I think the key difference between the Mapbuilder 
> approach and that of Openlayers is the use of XSL for service chaining 
> and keeping models in XML instead of JS:
>
> Mapbuilder:
> * Stores OWS Context as an XML file.
> * Uses XSL to convert various outputs (GetCapabilities response, 
> Catalog search response, etc) to OWS Context.
> * Exports from OWS Context to other formats (like GML, WMC, KML, ...) 
> using XSL. (not complete)
>
> Openlayers:
> As I understand it, Lorenzo's code converts WMC to JS objects, then 
> does manipulation of those JS objects.
>
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>> Cameron, Steven, Roald,
>>
>> Before the MapBuilder meeting a couple weeks ago, there was an
>> OpenLayers Summer of Code idea titled "Web-based Configuration". I just
>> looked at the SoC page [1], and realized there are now *two * web-based
>> configuration ideas on the page, without a significant explanation as to
>> why there are two seperate ideas.
>>
>> It seems to me like some portion of the "web-based configuration" code
>> that would be created by such a project should not be specific to
>> MapBuilder. Additionally, I think that currently, there are two ideas
>> that are not sufficiently different in their goals for a student to
>> understand why they would choose one over the other.
>>
>> I'm happy if you want to make the primary frontend for such an
>> application be MapBuilder, but if that's the case, then it should be an
>> extension of the code that would be written on the backend.
>>
>> Help me understand what's going on here? Why are the first two tasks on
>> the list not integrated into one idea? 
>> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>   
>
>


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