The benefit of mapguide-rest over the official MapGuide API is that the REST API has a much simplified programming model and greater flexibility over the official MapGuide API.
You have to know .net, PHP or Java to use the official MapGuide API. With the REST API, you only need to know how to make HTTP requests and process HTTP responses. Nearly every programming language out there has some kind of library to do this. There's an editable properties sample application that comes with mapguide-rest that demonstrates how you can query and edit spatial data just by using AJAX requests to the REST API. If you look at the code behind that example, it's all HTML/JavaScript. No trace of any .net, PHP or Java code whatsoever. - Jackie -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/mapguide-rest-feedback-tp5168657p5169293.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
