very interesting stuff Our issues are to do with history. NZERN has built this working legacy app (2000 pg's spagetti code) and is putting up a cheap to run mapservice using mapserver on another box. ESRI donated all the goodies couple weeks back (SDE, ArcIMS, ArcInfo9 etc) but I figure it will probably take 18 months to get that up on-line and working. The mapserver site will then migrate to ArcIMS.
I've seen flash interfaces on ArcIMS and they seem to run much faster than the java stuff. Our main website which is a content management system runs on CF and we are hoping to put up an alternative flash remoting interface on that for users who want it. The CMS will call and insert the maps into the CMS pages both cf and flash. Well thats the idea. Mike ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Paul Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:55:43 +0700 Office wrote: > We use MSDE2 inhouse but it has a 2GB limit. Being able to integrate CF with > mapserver would be fantastic. that's easy enough. we use cf to build url calls & then shoot them at the mapserver CGI using cfhttp. use cf to parse the response (like in the bad old IMS days). long ago we actually built a cfx_mapserver tag but it was flaky (mainly because mapserver itself was not thread safe) & broke other stuff (SDE functionality for instance). > Paul - are you querying ArcSDE with CF directly. ESRI have donated ArcSDE so > .... not for anything spatial. we're still on arcGIS 8.x. there is no java API for pre-9 arcSDE and frankly i think it wouldn't be as elegant as postGIS's sql. that can go right into cfquery, no fuss, no muss. mind you i don't mind making java calls (that's how we talk to arcIMS) just that having the ability to make a simple sql call to do some spatial work is pretty cool. > where is the boundary between CF and mapserver and flash we haven't used the mapserver/flash functionality much. when we looked at it when it first came out, seemed like we couldn't control very much. if you're getting all that esri s/w for free, why aren't you using arcIMS? i don't like the cfx tag much but the java connector works a treat from mx. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185627 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
