Fellow wankers, I may have programmed myself into a hole...
I am working on a research project involving a multi-resolution database (MRDB). By this, I mean the database inhales a series of vector datasets (just linear right now) and generalizes the data for essentially "all feasible" scales using RDP (details you really don't need to know). This all works great and I even have a nice GUI. It's all written in C++ (using wxWidgets for the GUI). The classes that manipulate the MRDB can function independent of the GUI and save their state in SQL (right now, PostgreSQL). I have been tasked with creating a basic browser-based interface for the MRDB - which is where I fall into my hole. Being an old-timer in web technologies, my first inclination (cringe) was to just slap some code around my classes to handle CGI requests and spit back PNG files. But being both lazy and of significant hubris (afterall, I do assume I'm making the next great data structure), I've been looking for more "modern" solutions. Plus, I didn't want to have to deal with the re-entrance issues of CGI. My next thought was to wrap my classes with a SOAP layer (either gSOAP or Axis2). But part of my goal is to create a back-end that a web designer can easily integrate into a polished website (which I'm far too lazy to do myself). And just standing up a SOAP service, I think, might be beyond anyone I can hire (all the good CompSci students at my university are already busy with interesting projects). I'm pretty well wed to my C++ code- it's too much to rewrite in Java. I'm not using PostGIS on purpose - I'm trying to create new data structures - not rely on something old. For reasons beyond my control, the web server I'm running is Apache on Windows. I will soon be running Tomcat and GeoServer for another project. After seeing what OpenLayers could do, I began to think that maybe I could build up a service that OpenLayers could consume. Any thoughts? Recommendations? -Eric Wolf -- -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography
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