John, A few other points: - my involvement in MapBuilderr grew out of an application I was developing in the late 90's called the Quicklook Swath Browser which used similar techniques: still running (sort of) at http://quicklook.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ql2/en - I'd like to echo Cameron's statement that we were using AJAX techniques at least a year before the term was coined. - A major event for almost all of the Open Source client libraries was the Bird-Of-a-Feather session at FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne, where we agreed that collaborating on a map rendering API would be beneficial to all of us, and that common library was to be provided by Open Layers. It's almost a year since then and MapBuilder (as well as several other projects) have incorporated the OL API for rendering the maps.
As for your questions, releases: 1.0.0 - April 6(?), 2006 1.0.1 - July 19, 2006 - it has always been a client side library, so there is no Linux-only version. We have supported both Apache/PHP and Java Servlet web servers since very early on. Mike Cameron Shorter wrote: > We haven't spent much time documenting our history as we go along. We > are starting to get to an age where not everyone can remember this > history, and it would it would be useful to have some of this data for > both research and nostalgic value. > > I periodically have written a Strategic Direction paper which captures > some history and looks forward. The latest is at: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction and previous > versions are linked from there. > > You can get ideas about dates from the svn commits and the dates of > releases. > > Raj Singh wrote a pre-cursor to Mapbuilder originally which demonstrated > use of vector rendering in a web browser. > > I then took his core ideas and built the first Mapbuilder which was a > WMS Viewer built from a Web Map Context document. > It ran in IE and Firefox - on any operating system. > > Mike Adair was working on something similar and joined forces very early > on. Among other things, Mike was responsible for the config.xml files > that is now core to Mapbuilder. > > We then focused on WFS-T functionality, vector rendering using > wz_graphics (ie drawing a line by hundreds of <div> elements, and > transactions between the browser and server. > We were writing AJAX code before anyone knew about the power of AJAX, > before AJAX had been coined, and before Goolge made AJAX popular. > Looking back we were blazing a lot of new ground, and as happens when > you blaze ground, we made some design decisions that we would make > differently today. > > Anyway, hopefully that should give you enough to fill an intro section. > > John Roberts wrote: > >> Dear All >> >> I am writing a dissertation on spatial FOSS products. I am including >> MapBuilder. >> >> I was wondering if anybody could provide me with some information on >> MapBuilder history. I am particularly interested to know: >> >> 1. In what year was MapBuilder first released? >> 2. Was the MapBuilder first released as Linux only and if so, in what year >> was the Windows version first released? >> 3. Any other interesting facts about its history. >> >> Many Thanks for your time. >> >> Kind Regards >> >> John >> Manchester, UK >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapbuilder-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mapbuilder-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users
