[OpenLayers-Dev] MapFish uses vector-behavior

[Sean Gillies]

Eric Lemoine wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Just to let you know what we've been up to with MapFish and the
> OpenLayers vector behavior work.
> 
> <http://dev.mapfish.org/sandbox/camptocamp/MapFishUnhcr/client/examples/editing/editingPanel.html>
> 
> We've built a feature editing widget that works both in online and offline mode.
> 
> When online, features are read from and written to our MapFish REST
> service. When offline, features are read from and written to
> GoogleGears. Thanks to the protocol abstraction the feature editing
> panel and the vector layer aren't aware of the specific underlying
> protocol - the offline module just switches the protocol without
> letting them know.
> 
> The offline module is also responsible for doing the sync, when going
> offline all the features of the current extent are copied into
> GoogleGears. When going back online, the features from GoogleGears are
> transferred to our REST service.
> 
> Again thanks to the protocol abstraction, various protocols can be
> used for the editable layers. For example, one layer of the feature
> editing panel can be configured with the MapFish protocol and an other
> with the WFS protocol.
> 
> We're gradually including this work in MapFish trunk.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> PS: this page is just an example, the js isn't minified/compressed,
> hence the slow loading time.
> --
> Eric

Eric,

You should point this out to the geo-web-rest list when the demo is up
and running again.

Cheers,
Sean