Re: [OpenMap Users] Openmap as a server (but not image server?)

From: Denny Lee <dennylee60_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:25:43 -0800 (PST)

Hello Keith,
Could you possibly post some source code showing how
you create your server? Thanks.

--- Keith Alphonso <kalphonso_at_diamonddata.com> wrote:

> I have created a java based Web Services SOAP
> interface similar to what you describe. The SOAP
> interface was developed using Axis and provides
> calls for modifying map parameters. These are stored
> server side and eventually transformed into openmap
> properties which define the map. I created a servlet
> which uses the imageserver classes to render the map
> and generate the image.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openmap-users_at_bbn.com
> <owner-openmap-users_at_bbn.com>
> To: openmap-users_at_bbn.com <openmap-users_at_bbn.com>
> Sent: Mon Jan 16 16:47:07 2006
> Subject: [OpenMap Users] Openmap as a server (but
> not image server?)
>
>
> Hello All,
> I'm working on an interactive Openmap GUI (for
> adding, deleting, and
> moving items on the map) that will wind up as part
> of a distributed
> agent-based system that is mostly written in Python,
> although some of
> the pieces the GUI will talk to are also in Java.
> After much searching,
> discussion, and evaluation of a few alternatives it
> appears that
> directly interfacing Java and Python is quite
> problematic, to say the
> least, partly because the java-based pieces are in a
> subordinate role -
> we would be trying to "wrap" the java pieces in a
> Python layer so that
> they look just like the other Python-based agents.
> From what the local
> Python developers tell me, this rules out things
> like Jython, which is a
> python interpreter embedded in Java.
>
> As an alternative we are now looking at messaging
> approaches like SOAP
> to be able to cross the language barrier; the
> various agents send
> messages to the GUI piece when they need it to
> update something, and
> user interaction is converted into messages that go
> out to the various
> agents as appropriate. Two questions:
>
> 1) has anybody used Openmap in this fashion? Any
> tips, tricks, gotchas
> to pass along?
>
> 2) In digging through the mailing list archives I
> see references to
> Openmap as an `Image server', but I also get back
> hundreds of hits from
> the archives from this search. I have found the
> javadocs for some of the
> relevant classes here, and it sounds like the
> functionality provided is
> narrowly defined to responding to requests for
> pieces of a map rendered
> as JPEG images, or something similar. Have I
> correctly understood the
> function of the ImageServer-related classes?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> Chris Esposito, Ph.D.
> Associate Technical Fellow
> Boeing
> (425) 865-5322
>
>
> --
> [To unsubscribe to this list send an email to
> "majdart_at_bbn.com"
> with the following text in the BODY of the message
> "unsubscribe openmap-users"]
>

--
[To unsubscribe to this list send an email to "majdart_at_bbn.com"
with the following text in the BODY of the message "unsubscribe openmap-users"]
Received on Tue Jan 17 2006 - 11:32:46 EST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Tue Mar 28 2017 - 23:25:07 EDT