Hi, The following docs on the mapserver site will certainly be helpful: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/javamapscript http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq/thread_safety http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/java_mapscript_Tomcat_55
Regards, Umberto On 1/10/06, li pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am a newbie to GIS. > Our customer is building their simple web-based MIS, and some modules > require GIS functions.Basically what they want is to mark some buildings on > the map of city(they own many buildings locate on different sides of the > city), and to caculate the distance between them, their also want that by > clicking a building on the map, they will by linked to the webpage showing > their MIS's interface of the building. > We was planning to use MapInfo, but only the license expense of MapInfo's > webserver will exceed the total budget. So we are trying to find an > alternative way. We would prefer a J2EE solution(the MIS is written using > J2EE), but since the GIS is an isolated module, it would not be a big > problem. > Finally I found QGIS, Mapserver and other opensource solutions. I have > downloaded Mapserver and installed some Mapserver based applications( MapLab > etc.). And my question is, if we try to add simple GIS features(as described > above) to our MIS, will Mapserver be the answer? or some Mapserver-based > application? > Thanks.
