Before launching into building the web application, allow me to restate one additional time my concern. If I am to build a GIS flex web-based application to a certain new project/client:
1- What ARCGIS for Server license and what related map services would I choose for the project and why? (Dynamic map services, feature map services with standard licensing or read-only feature map services with the basic licensing or any combination of?)
- Case 1: The main functionalities are regualr mapping capabilities (view, search, retrieve map data in addition to identifying map features), without editing map features.
- Case 2: The main functionalities are regualr mapping capabilities (view, search, retrieve map data in addition to identifying map features), with editing map features enabled.
2- Would you advise of any literature/documentation that can help clarify the above?
In other words, would I recommend ARCGIS for Server basic to my client and build a web-based flex application consuming read-only feature map services (Noting that no web editing functionality is required)? Or would it be better to recommend ARCGIS for Server standard and have the web based flex application consume the dynamic map services?
Also, if web editing funcitonality is required (accordingly we would need ARCGIS for server standard), would I drop the use of dynamic map services totally and rely on feature map services for display as well as for editing in the web application? Or should they be mashed up, the dynamic map services for the display and the feature map services for the editing?