oi Hugo!!
what type of a hit with processing time do you think you would take if CF does all
the parsing as
opposed to a dll?
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 2:47:08 AM, you wrote:
HA> (As a background for people who don't know what this is about:
HA> ArcIMS is a piece of software by a company called ESRI that is basically a
HA> web-service for creating maps on-the fly, as well as querying and
HA> manipulating those maps. ESRI has supported CF up to 5.0, but the MX
HA> support has been slow.)
HA> (This message has also been posted on the ESRI CF/ArcIMS discussion board)
HA> It sounds good that there will be MX support in the upcoming ArcIMS 4.01.
HA> But... Would it be overly tricky for us (the community) to roll our own
HA> connector? What is the magic that is done in the CFX/DLLs/SOs etc in the
HA> connector?
HA> I understand part of what is done is handling the CustomTags and parsing
HA> the return AXL's, but that is nothing overly complicated, right?
HA> (especially with MX's XML abilities?)
HA> Step one would be to create tags/UDF's/CFC's to just send and receive
HA> AXL's (wouldn't it just be posting the request AXL to a specified port?)
HA> and get the return.
HA> Further steps would be to mimic/copy the behaviour of the CF_ARCIMS tag,
HA> parse the request (OUT_QUERYTABLE etc) and catch errors.
HA> If it is community owned/maintained it could be open source, and we could
HA> fix errors and improve the tag-set continously.
HA> Any comments?
HA>
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