[OpenLayers-Users] MapFish vs OpenLayers

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

If you are only interested in the client-side, I would suggest looking at
GeoExt:

http://www.geoext.org

Best regards,
Bart

> Hello Bart and Hugo,
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> I'm new with MapFish, I've just installed and done some basic tests.
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> First of all, I don't understand how it works pylons virtual environment.
> Anyway, I'm interested in client side of MapFish to build a Rich web
> mappinng application. Now We use OL over an apache server and it's a clear
> and tipical structure of files and data. When We need to create a new
> component, we extends OL classes creating new js files. Server side
> components are created using servlets or php and client comunicates with
> them using ajax.
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> I don't understand how the same can be do it with MapFish. I think there
> are a great dependency with python server environment.
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> Antoni Vidal
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> www.icc.cat <http://www.icc.cat/>
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> De: Bart van den Eijnden [mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl]
> Enviat: jueves, 15 de julio de 2010 15:05
> Per a: Vidal, Antoni
> A/c: users at openlayers.org
> Tema: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] MapFish vs OpenLayers
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> Hi,
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> I think you need to differentiate between MapFish and GeoExt.
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> GeoExt adds a nice looking GUI to OpenLayers, it's all still javascript.
> GeoExt is also used by MapFish.
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> What is complex in your opinion?
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> MapFish is more than just a client webmapping package, it's a full
> web-mapping solution, so server-side + client-side.
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> Also read:
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> http://erilem.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/mapfish-and-geoext/
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> Best regards,
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> Bart
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> On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Vidal, Antoni wrote:
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> Hello list,
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> We use OpenLayers since 4 years and the results are very satisfactory.
> Nowadays, We are planning to make a step foreward using MapFIsh. Somebody
> has experience with this framework? What's your opinion versus OL?
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> In my first sight, I think MapFish too complex.
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> What do you think?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Antoni Vidal
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> Unitat d'Aplicacions SIG-WEB
> Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
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> Parc de Montjuïc, E-08038 Barcelona
> Tel. (+34) 93 567 15 00 (ext. 3228)
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