[OpenLayers-Dev] Can OpenLayers call a webservice?

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On May 6, 2010, at 9:51 PM, ext venkat.bapalu wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was stuck up at the below implementations and am not able to move further.
> I have few queries on OpenLayers functionalities, Please let me know the
> possibility of the approach and the best way of implementing it !!
> 
> 1. Can OpenLayers directly read the XML data with spatial information and
> display in web page? If this possible, please give any example

Yes.

> 2. Can OpenLayers connect directly to any database (oracle) and publish the
> data on map? one way of connecting to the database is through the use of
> GeoServer with OpenLayers. But I want to use only OpenLayers to connect to
> the oracle database. Please let me know how to achieve this?

No.

> 3. Can OpenLayers using JavaScript (AJAX) can call a Oracle BPEL webservice?
> If so how to customize the openlayers to call the webservice

No idea.

-- Chris