Re: i'm a begener...i'm not sure of anything..need help to create java application as google maps

From:
Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:36:16 +0000
Message-ID:
<h0i434-3gb.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk>
in message <1163875260.770612.115510@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
cristina ('kenakola@yahoo.com') wrote:

hi everyone,
i want to try to connect an application(only a desktop one) that exists
with the maps by Developing Google Maps Application by Java(JSF) (&
Java Script)..so i would like to improve the interface conecting in
this case with a dinamic one.The instruments that i have to work on for
the first time are:
                                                    Eclipse,
                                                    tomcat,
                                                    sdk,
                                                    xml,
                                                    html..
what can i do ?
whow can i do to begin using the google maps API?can i?
if anybody can please help me


Googlemaps API is pretty easy and there are lots or ways to do it. The way
I do it is to use an XSL transform on an XML stream generated by a servlet
served by Tomcat to generate the HTML/JavaScript that is one way of
driving Googlemaps.

Like this, in fact:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
    <!-- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- google-maps-include.xsl -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- Purpose: -->
    <!-- Include google maps into a news page. -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- Author: Simon Brooke <simon@weft.co.uk> -->
    <!-- Created: 19th September 2006 -->
    <!-- Copyright: (c) 2006 Simon Brooke -->
    <!-- $Revision: 1.1.2.4 $ -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- This program is free software; you can redistribute it -->
    <!-- and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General -->
    <!-- Public License as published by the Free Software -->
    <!-- Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your -->
    <!-- option) any later version. -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be -->
    <!-- useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the -->
    <!-- implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A -->
    <!-- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -->
    <!-- for more details. -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public -->
    <!-- License along with this program; if not, write to the Free -->
    <!-- Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, -->
    <!-- Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -->
    <!-- -->
    <!-- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -->
    <xsl:variable name="googlemapskey"> @googlemapskey@ </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:template name="google-maps">
        <div class="contentmain"
          id="mapdiv" style="width: 800px; height: 600px; border:thin solid
black;">
          <xsl:comment> probably best not to tag-minimise that DIV,
either</xsl:comment>
        </div>

        <script type="text/javascript">
          <xsl:attribute
name="src">http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=1&amp;key=<xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space( $googlemapskey)"/></xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:comment> don't leave script tags empty! </xsl:comment>
        </script>
        <script
          type="text/javascript">
          if (GBrowserIsCompatible())
          {
            var map = new GMap(document.getElementById("mapdiv"));
            map.addControl( new GSmallMapControl());
            map.addControl( new GMapTypeControl());
            map.centerAndZoom(new GPoint( -4, 55), 8);

                <xsl:apply-templates xml:space="preserve" select="//story"/>

          }
          else
          {
                alert( "We're sorry, but your browser is not supported by Google
Maps");
          }
        </script>
    </xsl:template>

        <!-- DO NOT reformat this. The interaction between JavaScript and XSL is
                 horrible! -->
        <xsl:template match="story">
        <xsl:variable name="marker">marker<xsl:value-of
select="position()"/></xsl:variable>
        <xsl:variable name="url">"/withmapsdemo/story/article_<xsl:value-of
select='normalize-space(@article)'/>.html"</xsl:variable>
        <xsl:variable name="title">"<xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space(title)"/>"</xsl:variable>
        <xsl:variable name="created">"<xsl:apply-templates
select='created'/>"</xsl:variable>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="location"/>
        <xsl:text>

            </xsl:text>var <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$marker"/>
=
              createMarker(point, <xsl:value-of select="$url"/>,
                <xsl:value-of select='$title'/>, <xsl:value-of
select="$created"/>);

            map.addOverlay(<xsl:value-of select="$marker"/>);<xsl:text>

            </xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="location">
            point = new GPoint( <xsl:value-of select="@longitude"/>,
<xsl:value-of select="@latitude"/>);
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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