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Integrating Spatial Information into JSF Java EE Web Applications with GeoJSF

Authors:
Thorsten Kisner
Helge Hemmer
Klaus Jacobi

Keywords: WebGIS; WMS; WFS; JSF; JavaEE; integration; component library; spatial data

Abstract:
In recent years an increasing acceptance of geographical information systems (GIS) to be used by clients in their web browsers and therefore a high demand for such WebGIS systems is observable. The processing and visualization of spatially referenced data became more and more important, even in fields of applications that are not traditional GIS domains like earth observation or remote sensing. Management information systems (MIS) or social networks among others have also evolved requirements for GIS features. For implementing enterprise architectures, many powerful frameworks and (Open Source) products are available on the market; considering the Java programming language in its enterprise edition (JavaEE) for example, several compliant application servers can be used, along different solutions to share geospatial data and many ways to work with these data in the clients web browser. Being in this concrete scope of developing a Java EE software with a presentation layer implemented in Java Server Faces (JSF), which is part of the Java EE standard specification, one quickly realizes the lack of a comprehensive integration of GIS functionality into JSF. In this paper, we propose a framework to develop web applications with geospatial elements by an own implementation of a component library for JSF technology, enabling the developer to enrich his application with powerful GIS features at ease.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-393X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-118-2

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011