MapGuide Architecture

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Revision History

Revision	Date	Author	Comment
1.0	October 31, 2008	Bruce Dechant	Initial public revision
1.0	November 4, 2008	Bruce Dechant	Updated various sections

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Related Documents
3. Terms and Definitions
4. High Level View
   1. Client Tier View
      1. AJAX VIEWER
      2. DWF VIEWER
      3. FUSION VIEWER
      4. MAESTRO
      5. SITE ADMINISTRATOR
   2. Web Tier View
   3. Server Tier View
   4. Interaction Model
5. Server Component Architecture
6. Web Tier Component Architecture
7. Configuration Settings
8. TBD

Overview

This document describes the MapGuide architecture. The MapGuide server is based on the ACE (ADAPTIVE Communications Environment) framework.

Related Documents

Document	Link
ACE (ADAPTIVE Communication Environment)	​http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
AGG (Anti-Grain Geometry)	​http://www.antigrain.com/
Oracle Berkeley DB XML	​http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html

Terms and Definitions

Term	Definition
ACE	ADAPTIVE Communication Environment
AGG	Anti-Grain Geometry
API	Application Programming Interface
Data connection	A connection between the server and underlying data stores.
DTD	XML Document Type Definition
FDO	Feature Data Objects
FDO connection	A connection between the server and underlying FDO data store.
FIFO	First In First Out
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
RDBMS	Relational Database Management System
SMP	Symmetric Multiprocessing
SQL	Structured Query Language
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol
XML	eXtensible Markup Language
XMLDB	Native XML Database
XPath	XML Path Language
XQuery	XML Query Language
XSD	XML Schema Definition

High Level View

The following diagram shows the MapGuide web-based platform 3-tier architecture.

Client Tier View

AJAX VIEWER

The AJAX Viewer is a pure DHTML viewer based on AJAX technology that does not require any downloadable plug-ins. This viewer works in all major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

DWF VIEWER

The DWF Viewer embeds the downloadable Autodesk DWF Viewer which is based on a Microsoft ActiveX Control with full support for the Autodesk DWF format. This viewer works in Microsoft Internet Explorer only.

FUSION VIEWER

Built primarily in JavaScript, Fusion is a web mapping application development framework. Fusion allows web designers and developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily. Using “widgets” that provide the interface functionality within Fusion’s modular architecture, developers are able to add, remove, or modify functionality using standard-compliant HTML and CSS. Fusion requires no proprietary browser plug-ins, and it produces applications that work in all major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Fusion provides a flexible means of interacting with MapGuide Open Source. Using a growing suite of widgets, this modular-based system allows you to build powerful, interactive AJAX applications quickly with minimal programming experience. For applications requiring special functionality, Fusion provides an extensible platform that allows you to develop your own widgets.

MAESTRO

TBD

SITE ADMINISTRATOR

The MapGuide Site Administrator is an application for managing your site and its servers. This application uses a web-based interface that you can access from any web browser. To start the program, open a browser and enter: ​http://servername:port/mapguide/mapadmin/login.php, using the name of the site server and port that you specified during installation. You use the MapGuide Site Administrator to add and remove servers, take servers offline for maintenance, modify the configuration of a server, assign services to the servers, and monitor the status of any server. The MapGuide Site Administrator is not a separate product component, but it is installed as a part of the MapGuide Web Server Extensions.

Web Tier View

TBD

Server Tier View

TBD

Interaction Model

The following diagram shows the interaction between the various tiers.

The following diagram shows the interaction between servers.

Server Component Architecture

TBD

Web Tier Component Architecture

TBD

Configuration Settings

TBD