Larry,
My answer is I hope to make Open JUMP into a Web Editing Client. I'm
actually looking at doing this for my clients.
The tough part of this is what types of web services will it be an
editing client for. There are so many proprietary and open standards
out there. Each having their strengths and weaknesses. In my case I
think I'll end up writing a bunch of custom web services rather than
say use WFS.
I see the challenges for being a web editing client much the same as
what you experience for database connections. (e.g. querying and
caching data, inserting and updating data, speed of queries etc.). The
only thing that is really different is that you're using HTTP as a
communications protocol (instead of something behind JDBC) and you need
to deal with URL parameters, XML requests and parsing XML responses
that come back.
One other thing I've been considering is having Open JUMP as a Java Web
Start Application and having the concept of a Web Project. When jump
launches it would connect to a URL which would return a document
containing references to set up the project from web sources.
All this is a fair way off but that's where my current thoughts are at.
Paul
Larry Becker wrote:
Hello all,
I'm in the early stages of a new, but long anticipated software
project involving GIS. My assumption has always been that the role of
the GIS client would be filled by SkyJUMP, and the role of the GIS
server would be filled by ESRI Arc-something. Recently, I've been
pressured by the clients to adopt a web 2.0 approach to the project for
the usual reasons, ease of deployment, maintenance, and certification.
Unfortunately, the client GIS definitely needs to support fairly
heavy data creation and editing capabilities, plus I need to perform a
good bit of customization to integrate it with another application that
will be a consumer of some of the GIS data. The direction that I have
been pointed by the clients is toward ArcServer's new Web Editing
capability. However, we have found that ESRI changes the direction of
their platform every three or four years, leaving frustrated early
adopters in their wake. To paraphrase Obi-Wan, "I would prefer to
avoid any ESRI entanglements."
So my question for all of you GIS gurus out there is, "What is the
state of web GIS?" Can the current state of the art handle my
scenario, or is it still too soon?
And since this is a JUMP users discussion list, I'll also pose the
question, "Could JUMP be morphed into an editing web client?"
best regards,
Larry Becker
Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc.
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