I am rapidly trying to catch up on the news since I have been away down in the South Island skiing and on holiday! I had a great time and even came away with a nasty injury which has left me wearing a knee brace! A post that was made last week from the ArcGIS Server Development Team answers a bundle of questions that some users have been asking with the ArcGIS Server 9.3 REST API. The REST API caches information about folders and services to boost performance. The REST application is implemented such that the first time a service (or a folder) is accessed it fetches the information for that service...

I just saw this press release posted on a few web sites and it caught my eye. This caught my eye as it was a project which Eagle Technology Group Ltd along with IBM New Zealand and Guidewire implemented. I also worked on this project early last year as a developer before making a move to our Technical Solutions Team. SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Earthquake Commission of New Zealand (EQC), IBM®, and Guidewire Software®, today announced that EQC, in an IBM led implementation, have successfully deployed Guidewire ClaimCenter® to swiftly assess and manage natural disaster claim...

ESRI has released their first patch for ArcGIS Server 9.3. This comes in the form of a download which addresses performance and adds a extra piece of functionality to the REST API. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS Server 9.3 for the Microsoft .Net Framework REST API Performance and Functionality Patch. This patch includes two performance fixes. The first fix improves performance when accessing map tiles on a secure ArcGIS Server. The second fix adds the ability to turn off impersonation and allow REST Service to use a separate application pool with fixed identity. To learn more about using a separate...

The new ArcGIS 9.3 Flex API is now available! Earlier this month ESRI made available the ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API along with the ArcGIS 9.3 Resource Centres. Develop rich internet applications with ArcGIS services using the Flex™ framework. The API enables creating applications with intuitive, visually rich and responsive user interface. The ArcGIS API for Flex takes full advantage of the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities of ArcGIS services. ESRI announced the ArcGIS Server 9.3 Flex API at the ESRI Developer Summit 2008 and it’s great to see the first release has...

Yesterday morning Land Information New Zealand launched an updated look and feel to their website. A new-look Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) website has been launched today, to provide easier access to information about and held by LINZ. The site has thousands of pages of information on topics to do with New Zealand’s land and seabed: from geodetic formulae and information on titles; to topographical and hydrographical mapping, and information on Crown property. The press release can be found here: http://www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/… To go with this New Zealand TopoOnline was...

On a server where memory is limited you might have noticed that the IIS worker processes (W3WP) and the ArcGIS Server SOM process may begin to adversely affect other applications by consuming large amount of memory when the ArcGIS Server services are under heavy load. ESRI has provided an explanation and workaround for this problem. The reason that this occurs: The .NET garbage collection has a concept of generations (Garbage Collector Basics and Performance Hints). Local variables and short term objects are classified as generation one and are cleaned up frequently when garbage collection is called....

With BlackBerry’s becoming so common now I have been wondering about mapping applications for them. I have been slowly working on an application for the BlackBerry’s that make use of ArcGIS Server. This has been more of an research and development task so progress on this has been slow going. I see today the TDC Group announced their new application designed for the BlackBerry’s and which makes use of ArcGIS Server 9.3 The screenshot above gives you a insight of what to expect from Freeance Mobile 2.0. From the press release: Dayton, OH. TDC Group, Inc. announces release of its...

ESRI has added a technical article to the ESRI Support Centre answering this question. I have had a few people ask about the support for Oracle Express Edition (XE) when using ArcGIS Server 9.3. Question Can ArcGIS Server 9.3 Enterprise (all editions) be used with Oracle Express Edition (XE)? Answer Yes, Oracle XE can be used as the DBMS platform to support an Enterprise ArcSDE geodatabase. Because of the DBMS limitations listed below, ESRI recommends that ArcGIS Server Enterprise and Oracle Express Edition (XE) should only be used together for developing and testing applications and not for...

The new ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API and SDK is now available. This goes with the ArcGIS 9.3 Resource Centres that was made available earlier today. The online SDK which includes help and samples for the API is hosted within the ArcGIS Server Resource Centre. The ArcGIS Server Development Blog has a great write up on the release with answers to some questions you might have. Who can use the ArcGIS JavaScript API? Is there a cost? Everyone can use the ArcGIS JavaScript API. There is no fee for using the ArcGIS JavaScript API or deploying an application built with it. How do I learn how to use the ArcGIS...

ArcGIS 9.3 is fully supported on Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The full support listing for this can be found here: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm… Before installing ArcGIS Server on these operating systems there a few features or components that need to be enabled on the server. IIS 7.0 is very modularised which means that installing IIS doesn’t install all the features. You have to manually go in and select the features of IIS that you require. Chris Whitemore who is one of the Installation Product Engineer’s has provided some tips on how to go about doing...