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Sad news from one of the biggest Open Source map client frameworks: The mapbuilder community decided to stop developing the framework, as announed in this post. This is mostly due to the fact, that OpenLayers got so popular and the overlap between those two projects got so significant, that there does not seem to be a need to have two competitors for MapClient frameworks within OSGeo.
Myself, I did like MapBuilder, as it was so easy to configure and did not require any knowledge about browser scripting and all this. You just configured your XML map context document and you were ready to go.
Anyway the mapbuilder community will release a last stable version of the framework called 1.5. The ppl working on mapbuilder will contribute to the OpenLayers project (as they already did in the past), so maybe some nice features of mapbuilder might appear in OpenLayers in the future.

Theodor Foerster @ Wednesday, 30. July 2008 ,10:53 :: filed under unter Open Source, Web Service, Webmapping :: RSS comments .