Systematic plan of building a Web geographic information system based on ActiveX control

Xia Zhang; Deren Li; Xinyan Zhu; Nengcheng Chen

doi:10.1117/12.462322

14 March 2003 Systematic plan of building Web geographic information system based on ActiveX control

Xia Zhang, Deren Li, Xinyan Zhu, Nengcheng Chen

Proceedings Volume 4886, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462322
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2002, Crete, Greece

Abstract

A systematic plan of building Web Geographic Information System (WebGIS) using ActiveX technology is proposed in this paper. In the proposed plan, ActiveX control technology is adopted in building client-side application, and two different schemas are introduced to implement communication between controls in users¡¯ browser and middle application server. One is based on Distribute Component Object Model (DCOM), the other is based on socket. In the former schema, middle service application is developed as a DCOM object that communicates with ActiveX control through Object Remote Procedure Call (ORPC) and accesses data in GIS Data Server through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). In the latter, middle service application is developed using Java language. It communicates with ActiveX control through socket based on TCP/IP and accesses data in GIS Data Server through Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). The first one is usually developed using C/C++, and it is difficult to develop and deploy. The second one is relatively easy to develop, but its performance of data transfer relies on Web bandwidth. A sample application is developed using the latter schema. It is proved that the performance of the sample application is better than that of some other WebGIS applications in some degree.

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Xia Zhang, Deren Li, Xinyan Zhu, and Nengcheng Chen "Systematic plan of building Web geographic information system based on ActiveX control", Proc. SPIE 4886, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology II, (14 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462322

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