ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
Redlands, CA
Leader in GIS with at least 1/3rd of market
Originator of commercial GIS in 1981 with release of ArcInfo
Released their first GUI product, ArcView, in 1991 (for MS Windows,
UNIX, Macintosh)
Combined these two product lines together with release of ArcGIS
v.8 in 2000 (for Microsoft Windows only)
complete rewrite based on Microsoft COM/Active X software objects
completely different interface from earlier ArcView and ArcInfo
old, Avenue based, ArcView still available as ArcView 3.3
old command line ArcInfo still available as ArcGIS Workstation
ArcGIS 9 released in 2004
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ArcGIS 9
ArcGIS 9 is an integrated family of GIS software products for
building a complete GIS. It is based on a common library of
shared GIS software components called ArcObjects™. ArcGIS
9 consists of four key parts:
• ArcGIS Desktop—an integrated suite of advanced GIS
applications.
• ArcGIS Engine—embeddable GIS component libraries for
building custom applications using multiple application
programming interfaces.
• ArcGIS Server—a platform for building server-side GIS
applications in enterprise and Web computing frameworks.
• ArcIMS®—GIS Web server to publish maps, data, and
metadata through open Internet protocols.
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ArcEngine
ArcGIS Engine is a simple, application-neutral
programming environment for ArcObjects. Its SDK
provides a series of embeddable ArcGIS components
that are used outside the ArcGIS Desktop application
framework—for example, mapping objects are managed
as a part of ArcGIS Engine, rather than in ArcMap. Using
the ArcGIS Engine developer kit, developers can build
focused GIS solutions with simple interfaces to access
any set of GIS functions or embed GIS logic in existing
user applications to deploy GIS to broad groups of
users.
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Programming with ArcEngine
Can be viewed as
Customized Application
Programming Interface
Customized GIS
Applications (C++,
COM, .Net and Java)
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Programming with ArcEngine
Software libraries within ArcObjects
Chapeter 2
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Programming with ArcEngine
On Windows – ArcEngine (commercial product)
Build COM/ActiveX with Microsoft Visual Studio series
(VB, VC++, VS.net, C#, etc)
Seamless integration, easy implementation. Most
of applications are based on this framework.
Not portable…
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Programming with ArcEngine
On Solaris/Linux --- ArcEngine (Beta release)
Simulate the event-driven applications using shared
library (.so) and open source software (Motif)
GUI display (Open Motif)
C++ compiler
Forte 6 update 2
GCC 3.2
Makefile template
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Programming with ArcEngine
On Windows/Solaris/Linux --- ArcEngine
If I want to use Java (J2SE) ….
No need to use Open Motif.
But eventaully you will need JNI to call the
native c++ library (.so) from Java, handled
by ArcObject initializer (AoInitialize)
And still need a good Makefile template
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Resources and Help
ArcEngine SDK, ArcEngine Runtime, ArcReader (on
rasp.cs.utk.edu @ /export/arcgis)
Developer guide viewArcGISDevHelpC++
Sample codes (with CD)
ESRI ArcGIS Developer Online
Arcgisdeveloperonline.esri.com/ArcGISDeveloper/default.asp
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Programming with ArcEngine
On Windows/Solaris/Linux --- ArcEngine (C++ only)
Command line applications (cross-platform applications)
ArcGIS Engine
Text editor, C/C++ compiler
Configured ArcObject environment
ArcSDK.h
Makefile template (simple)
ArcGIS Engine runtime
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Projects
1) Problem description, basic roles and objectives (very
simple, straight-forward)
2) Introduction to the software architecture of and available
functionalities; Potential implementation methods based
on the available functionality provided by ArcEngine and
ArcObject
3) Tutorial on how to setup ArcEngine environment on
Linux platform
4) Implementations using ArcEngine on Linux platform
(cs594+eeb504-stendents@cs.utk.edu)
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