Geomajas 1.8.0 backend & GWT face in staging

As of now, a new version of the Geomajas backend and the Geomajas GWT face have been placed in staging, awaiting community approval to be released. The vote has been started on the mailing list, and will end thursday 27 januari 12:00 CET. 

If by that time the release has not been rejected, it will become the official 1.8.0 release of the Geomajas GWT face. At that time, we will immediately update the online showcase and the maven archetype for building new Geomajas projects. A preview of the new showcase can already be found here.

To see the full list of solved issues, visit the Geomajas issue tracker. In order to test this release for yourself, the staging repository can be found at the following location:

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging

Next to the jar files, this maven repository will also contain sources, javadoc and documentation (HTML + PDF).

Have fun testing!

Feature Information plug-in for Geomajas

Good news for the Geomajas community as DFC, a Belgian GIS Software company, made a proposal for an advanced feature information plug-in. This plug-in would be an extension for the Geomajas GWT face and introduce  a couple of new widgets for handling and displaying the attribute information of features on the map.

I will go over them one by one, to further explain their functionality. Some of the images might contain text in Dutch - sorry for that.

Search Result Table
A tab-based widget for storing the results of a search in a table, where each table would have some additional options:

Tree based feature attribute info
A floating window containing the attribute information of multiple features for multiple vector layers within a tree structure. Two version will be made: one where the attribute values are displayed within the tree itself, and one where the actual attribute information will be displayed outside of the tree (at the bottom).