http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog A platform for building spatially enabled rich internet applications. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:14:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the past, if you used mapserver as the mapping engine, you could only use one ResponseMX server application inside Tomcat. This was due to the fact that mapserver uses native libraries, which can only be loaded once by any given process, rather than pure java libraries. We have found ... http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog/2008/06/11/multiple-response-mx-applications-with-mapserver/ I've been busy this week enhancing ResponseMX's database search functionality. At the moment if you have spatial data in Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL or access databases you can configure ResponseMX to search your database records and locate points on your maps. In ResponseMX 3 you'll have more flexibility when ... http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog/2008/02/29/response-mx-database-search-enhancements/ We're looking to recruit a Front End Web Developer into the ResponseMX team. We're looking for someone who is familiar with Object Orientated JavaScript and ActionScript; can create good looking, usable and accessible content and is motivated and willing to learn all about this spatial stuff. See the careers section for more ... http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog/2008/02/12/join-the-responsemx-team/ Load Balancing ResponseMX over clustered Tomcats. What is load balancing and clustering. Well a lot cleverer people then me have wrote a lot of text on the different type of load balancing algorithms and clustering methodologies, so instead of regurgitating what my learned colleagues have wrote I'll just briefly sum ... http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog/2008/02/11/load-balancing-responsemx-over-clustered-tomcats/ Here's a tip for mapserver users which allows you read and display vector data stored within a regular database in ResponseMX. You will need ODBC access to your database. I've used mysql on windows for this example but other databases should work just the same. The tip takes advantage of OGR ... http://www.dottedeyes.com/web_mapping/blog/2008/02/06/how-to-display-polygons-from-non-spatial-databases/