Link - The Role of ArcPad
David Maguire responded to my post earlier about the purpose of ArcPad and I really can’t argue with any of his points. I guess it is more that I’m looking at this from a different angle than the ESRI ArcPad team is. As a developer I’d just rather have all this built into ArcGIS Engine rather than having to use a second framework (ArcPad Application Builder). If developers could use just one framework for all their GIS applications, that would simplify things so much.
From an end user standpoint there probably isn’t anything really wrong with ArcPad and embedded into Windows CE GPS units, it probably does a better job than previous proprietary programs did.
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MikeMO
// Aug 17, 2005 at 11:42 pm
As a developer I’d just rather have all this built into ArcGIS Engine rather than having to use a second framework (ArcPad Application Builder)
Ditto that. At the 2004 UC, ESRI previewed something they were calling Hi-Tower (sp?). My recollection is that it was .NET and Java libraries for targeting smart devices. It would give you a much more AO experience, streamline getting back to ArcGIS server and support modern programming environments. Not sure what has happened to it… I either totally missed it at this year’s UC, or it was absent. Anyone know what the scoop is?
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Brian Flood
// Aug 18, 2005 at 6:53 am
The Smart Client dev kit (aka HighTower) is still there and will be part of 9.2. On the client, it is not ArcObjects but another .Net based api that communicates directly with ArcGIS Server. Its pretty nice.
James - your links on the right don’t seem to work anymore ;( (not sure how I will find new GIS bloggers anymore)
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James Fee
// Aug 18, 2005 at 8:32 am
“James - your links on the right don’t seem to work anymore ;( (not sure how I will find new GIS bloggers anymore)”
Wacky, I’ll look at the script that creates them.
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