That's what you get when you move house - a long time without post.

Anyway, in the intervening:

a) Set up axis toolkit and deployed a test webservice. This is more a proof of concept than anything else, but it does get our foot on the web services ladder. The key steps are

1. get an up-to-date servlet container running (eg Tomcat).
2. deploy the axis webapp.
3. prepare a simple skeleton class library for your API - no functionality, just fields.
4. run the Java2WSDL tool to generate an appropriate WSDL file.
5. run the WSDL2Java too to back-generate your implementation skeleton, service locator and all the rest. This will also create a deployment descriptor.
6. fill in the skeletons and write a test client.
7. feed the deployment descriptor to the axis admin tool.
8. test!

b) Some stats work for Claire and form work for Becky.
c) Atlas revisions - we're going to feature a scale on the south and east of the map. Added calcDistance method to the IProjection interface (our projections incorporate correction for the irregular shape of the globe as well as the projection itself, so distance between a pair of lat/lon points can vary between them). Using algorithms from proj.

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 12:01 PM