All of our teams have made a tremendous effort to make ArcGIS 10 a very special release. This week, the Java team posted some videos and demo code to highlight some of the changes they’re including.
Java Add-ins for ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS 10′s brand new Add-ins overhaul the way extensions to ArcGIS Desktop work and have garnered a lot of interest for their ease of use and deployment. The video “Add-ins for ArcGIS Desktop” shows you all you need to know to create and deploy a Java Add-in from scratch.
Server Object Extensions using Java
ArcGIS 10′s Server Object Extensions have been improved based on your feedback, allowing access via REST as well as SOAP. And you can now register and unregister SOEs via ArcGIS Server Manager, which will also auto-discover newly deployed SOE jar files. There are the usual documentation resources, but the Java team has put together a quick video walkthrough of deploying SOAP services for SOEs.
ArcGIS Server Web ADF
On the ADF side there are both performance and usability enhancements and there’s a video to show you how to best make use of these performance-tuning features at ArcGIS 10. There’s also a video and an accompanying sample that demo how to use the new Dojo Widgets and event hooks to make your JavaScript apps that much slicker.
Linux and ArcGIS Server
Lastly, let’s not forget all the work that’s gone into ArcGIS Server on Linux. There have been improvements in performance, stability and server management for ArcGIS Server 10 on Linux with some serious scalability work and testing going on. Check out the Java Blog’s post for more details on improved failover behavior and scripts to ease cache generation.
Additional Resources
There are more Java code samples and videos for you to check out over in the Java Resource Center, including their Java-specific “What’s coming in ArcGIS 10″ overview video.
– Nick
