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Track: Information Access and the Internet
David Engen
Starise Enterprises Inc.
A-1322 Thurlow Rd.
Victoria, BC V8S 1L6
CANADA
Telephone: 250-480-8828
Fax: 250-385-0855
E-mail: dengen@islandnet.com
Using MapObjects with Java to Internet Enable GIS Applications
Throughout the local press are articles about how the Internet has taken the world by storm. Today most of the information found on the Web is in the form of static text and images hyperlinked together. One of the advantages of the Web is the common user interface that can be found on all major computing platforms through the use of Web browsers. As the Web matures people want more sophistication by creating applications based on the Web paradigm. Sun's Java language has been touted as the Internet programming language that can be used to develop this next generation of Internet aware applications. Last year at Esri's Sixteenthth User Conference, MapObjects was released to provide an excellent tool to create GIS applications. To provide the next generation of spatial applications MapObjects can be combined with the strength of Java to create Internet-enabled GIS applications. As with most languages there are different approaches of how Java can be used with MapObjects. The intent of this paper is to
outline some of the basic design and development issues for using MapObjects with Java to Internet enable GIS applications.
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