[Cartoweb-users] Fwd: a mapserver framework for flexibility

[Claude Philipona]

Hi,

As Cartoweb and mambo are both in PHP, it is already a good start.

The cartoweb architecture allows you to separate the the cartoserver
(whiche drives the mapserver) from the cartoclient (which handles mainly
the rendering). 

So you wouldn't have to implement both as Mambo modules, but only the
cartoclient part, which is a good point. I don't know mambo good enough to
tell if you could use the mainstream cartoclient straight away. You will
probably have to adapt somme part. We would have to talk about this with
the main CartoWeb developers. But one thing is sure, you can always rewrite
part of it, or even the whole cartoclient to suite your needs. For
instance, we did developp for a client a special cartoclient in JSP feeded
by the standard cartoserver.

So yes CartoWeb could fit, but we would have to study a little bit more the
Mambo architure to tell more precisely how easily it would fit.


Claude

> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet: [Cartoweb-users] Fwd: a mapserver framework for flexibility
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:00:10 -0300
> De: Eduardo Patto Kanegae <e.patto.kanegae at gmail.com>
> Pour: cartoweb-users at lists.maptools.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I forgot to consider CartoWeb to do this job!
> 
> Could CartoWeb fit?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	a mapserver framework for flexibility
> Date: 	Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:45:11 -0300
> From: 	Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> To: 	MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> 
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm currently looking for a MapServer *framework* to build MapScript
> applications inside another application : MamboServer.
> 
> Just to clarify, MamboServer ( www.mamboserver.com ) is a free CMS
> software written in PHP and have a lot of great features.
> 
> Now, we want to integrate MapServer inside Mambo as a mambo component.
> 
> I was thinking to use Chameleon as preffered mapping framework, but is
> my suggestion right?
> 
> Can I  do it? Or chameleon can just work alone? I mean, can I use
> Chameleon widgets to load MapFiles,
> draw maps but inside another PHP application? ( because, we need to
> validate user rights, etc...)
> 
> another idea I was thinking about is to develop OGC maps, to be used
> with desktop applications (JUMP,uDig,ArcGIS OGC,...)
> and also a set of "mirror" maps  using NON-ogc access , to be used by
> PHP/MapScript applications. I was thinking in doing
> things this way to get some "speed" on web applications. But, is this
> really necessary? Or OGC maps should be enough
> to feed web MapServer clients and desktop clients?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> best regards.
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> 
> 
> 
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