Boy, time goes fast and the Developer Summit is already upon us. This year’s conference coincides with the release of ArcGIS 9.3 Beta. We are very excited to share with you all the work we put into this release. We have improved the documentation in our SDKs, made map caching easier, added tools to manage security, optimized the web mapping applications, and many other things.
Today, we just want to talk a bit about the new ArcGIS JavaScript and REST APIs. We built this new JavaScript API because many of you have asked for a simple way to share your GIS data and tools over the internet. Here is an example built on top of the ArcGIS JavaScript API.
We have kept this ArcGIS JavaScript API very simple; to make sure that everyone could take advantage of it without being a hardcore programmer. But at the same time, you’ll quickly learn that this API will let you go beyond mapping and incorporate advanced GIS functionality into your applications. You’ll have access to a complete online SDK with many samples for getting started and using this API. The example above goes beyond your simple “Hello World” mapping application and includes interactive charting of feature attributes using the Google Chart API.
For those of you who are familiar with REST, at 9.3 you’ll be able to REST-enable your GIS services. Once you enable REST on your GIS services, you’ll be able to access them with any scripting language such as Python, PHP, Ruby and why not, with JavaScript. In fact, the ArcGIS JavaScript API is a collection of JavaScript libraries that use ArcGIS REST resources. We built it for you so you can get the most common tasks, accessing map, geoprocessing, and geolocator services, done with minimum effort. For those who want to go the extra mile or use REST directly we are fully documenting the REST API as well.
We look forward to seeing you at the Developer Summit where you can learn more about ArcGIS Server 9.3. In the meantime, if you are curious, listen to these podcasts about sessions on ArcGIS Server REST services and ArcGIS JavaScript APIs.
Mark your calendars: March 17-20 in Palm Springs
-The ArcGIS Server Development Team
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Mike- Tried it this morning after reading your comment and it works fine for me in Firefox and IE7. Is it working for you now? What browser were you using when it happened and what did you see?
Hi,server team guys, I set up the server9.3beta and deployed some map service, but I cannot use rest api even simply retrieve the services list(http://hosts/arcgis/rest/services).
I don’t know why? Something else need to be configrued to enable the rest api?
Thanks.
Tom
“ESRI will host the 3 javascript api’s” means there are 3 js apis available. One is ArcGIS JavaScript™ API(ESRI), the other two are ArcGIS JavaScript™ Extension for the Google Maps™ API and ArcGIS JavaScript™ Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth™.
Never mind, I found a way to make the data layer appear, in the forums. http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=2396&t=273651&mc=7#msgid845617