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REST-based Security is now available in Geocortex Essentials 3.1

October 28th, 2010 by Drew Millen

Today we released Geocortex Essentials 3.1!  This is a major new release of Geocortex Essentials for ArcGIS Server 10 and 9.3/9.3.1.

Of particular interest we have introduced an architecture which allows you to secure your REST-based applications.  So if you are working with the Flex or Silverlight APIs, or a viewer based on these APIs you can secure your application.

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(above, screenshots of REST Manager Security administration)

Security leverages the .NET Membership & Role Providers, so your users and roles can be stored in Active Directory, SQL Server, or in a simple XML file which is shipped with Geocortex Essentials.  You can also use Windows authentication which has the added benefit of allowing single-sign-on when using Silverlight.

If you are working with ArcGIS Server Web APIs and you require the ability to secure one or more applications you will be delivering to your users, Geocortex Essentials 3.1 may be your answer.

In this release we have also put a lot of effort in to the architecture to enable organizations to deploy multiple instances Geocortex Essentials REST Elements on different servers to support scalability, or elasticity in a cloud-based deployment.

Visit the Geocortex Support Center’s downloads section to grab the installer and read the documentation related to this release.  Be sure to consult the release notes for full details of everything that has changed.

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Geocortex Essentials Client APIs 1.1 Released

January 22nd, 2010 by Kevin Rintoul

We are pleased to announce that we have released version 1.1 of the  Geocortex Essentials Client APIs. This release complements the recent release of Geocortex Essentials version 2.2.  We have also updated the Geocortex Resource Center with a lot of great new content for this release. Below is an example of the new Print Template with Markup feature that many of you have been asking for.

We are excited about this release and look forward to hearing about your implementations. For those that wish to use this release right away, we would encourage you to check out the expanded samples section in the Client APIs Resource Center.

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Geocortex Essentials 2.0 and ESRI’s Developer APIs

October 16th, 2008 by David Stevenson

UPDATE: This message was originally posted for our customers on the Geocortex Support Center on October 6, 2008 and is posted here for folks who don’t have access to the Geocortex Support Center. Also, here’s the link to the Geocortex Essentials: The Road Ahead webinar.

I’m posting to provide some insight into current and upcoming Geocortex Essentials development, as it relates to ESRI’s new and emerging developer APIs.

It is clear to us that these APIs will have an integral role to play (alongside Web ADF) for many customers in the years to come and so we are actively engineering Geocortex Essentials 2.0 to encompass these developer technologies.

Agnostic support and integration for various ESRI developer technologies (as they come into existence) has always been part of the long-term vision for Geocortex Essentials and so our work has always been designed to be exposed in an agnostic way at some point in the future. With the intense demand for Web ADF features and the absence of other APIs, Geocortex Essentials development has been focused on the Web ADF realm for the 1.x product generation, while ensuring we we could make the core elements generic once warranted. And that’s what we’re doing right now.

We’re currently working on a Geocortex Essentials REST API to initially expose search, reporting, data linking and printing via a RESTful interface. This functionality can then be leveraged by either Javascript or Flex API applications—or any other application that connects RESTfully to our API. We decided to expose these particular core elements because they’re needed at the heart of many real-world ArcGIS Server implementations. Let us know if other features are a priority to your organization.

Before long, we’ll also get behind one or more lightweight viewer APIs by developing software to streamline and enhance the development and management of applications built on them. While we’re working with each and may provide sample Javascript and Flex API template applications on which to base development, we have yet to “pick a pony” regarding technological emphasis on the lightweight viewer/application development side. We don’t think all the information is available yet to ensure the correct decision, and we’re confident our customers won’t want us to risk going down the wrong path by making a premature choice.

We’re anticipating a Q1 2009 release of version 2.0. Finally, because Geocortex Essentials is about success with ArcGIS Server, everything we’re talking about here will be delivered to you as part of regular product updates.

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ArcGIS API for Flex

August 3rd, 2008 by David Stevenson

The JavaScript/REST APIs have been generating lots of buzz, but I think the (really) new Flex API is awesome too and will garner lots of attention at ESRI’s International User Conference next week. Check out the samples:

http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/flex/index.cfm?fa=samples

ESRI has clearly been hard at work on this, and it seems pretty slick. I can’t say for sure yet, but I’d guess that a lot of the work that was put into ArcWeb Services was leveraged, and it appears to offer most of the functionality needed to build a basic site with Flash.

We’re doing plenty of work to incorporate emerging technologies like this into Geocortex Essentials in an agnostic way, but for 2.0 we’d planned to concentrate on leveraging the heck out of the JavaScript/REST APIs alongside Web ADF. But the more I play with this, the more I want to cover the Flex API right away too. It’ll be interesting to see how people react to this next week; this will help guide our decision.

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