Hello, everyone.  Here's my situation: We are an authorized 
MapInfo reseller and want to put a complex app written
in MapBasic online.  I've searched extensively on the archives
of this list for how this can and should be done.  There looks to me to be three 
possibilities--
1.  Do everything from scratch using MapX or MapJ (or MapXtreme or Maptreme Java)?
2.  Integrate the existing MapBasic app with VB or Java?
3.  Drive the app over a web connection?

Now, some questions:
I assume that licensing (even though we are a reseller) prohibits #3.  With #1, we are 
leaning
to the idea that MapXtreme will be to expensive.  So, any thoughts on what MapXtreme 
gives
you that MapX does not?  I am mainly a Java developer, so I am fairly new to the 
Microsoft world.
I know that MapX is an "ActiveX component".  I had thought that MapX was mainly for 
desktop
development?  With #2, is it possible to integrate the app with Java?  What is 
involved with
"integrating the app with VB"?  As a related question (I realize that not many of you 
may have
opinions on this), what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Microsoft vs 
Java in this case?  
Does MapX==MapJ?  

>From what I've seen so far, this mailing list seems great!  A one or two sentence 
>technical description
of how you might attack the problem would be awesome!  I would really appreciate any 
thoughts on these topics.  

Steve Simpson
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