New Features of ArcGIS Server 10

 

ArcGIS Server 10 contains many improvements, such as data access, editing, search, and map Cache Management. The following describes the improvements of ArcGIS in version 10.

More flexible installation methods:
The Installation Process of ArcGIS Server consists of GIS services and Web applications. This gives us a more flexible deployment method and more convenient installation.
Previously, we needed to create a soap and rest service by creating a web application. This applicationProgramIt also includes managers to manage and create web applications.
Now we can deploy the Web Manager and Web Service separately. Creating and managing Web applications is an option. Through the Installation Wizard of ArcGIS Server, you can better understand the improvement details.

Added Process Monitoring:
Arcsocmon.exe runs on each machine where the SOC is deployed to monitor the running status of the SOC. When an SOC error occurs, the cause of the failure is returned to Som when the connection is reconnected.

Logs are saved in Socs:
Through the arcsocmon process, log files can be stored on each SOC machine. Compared with previous versions, it is better to log on to each SOC machine. Save all log information on each Soc. You can use the manager or ArcObjects Server API to obtain a time-ordered log list from all SOC instances.

More comprehensive search help:
The search function now uses the logical sorting method, so that we can see more accurate search results at the top of the search results.

Add Feature Service:
The Feature Service is added to ArcGIS Server 10, which allows you to access feature geometries and attributes. The biggest benefit of feature service is that you can edit feature using JavaScript, flex, or Silverlight applications.
Feature Service is released from map documents and needs to be bound to a separate ArcSDE Geodatabase together with the data source.

Add Search Service
The search service allows us to search the GIS content and the entire enterprise folder, so that we can easily find the content of our relationship. Our internal clients can update the service interfaces in ArcGIS Desktop to connect to our search service and find our link content. These results can be added to the map. The greatest use of the search service is the joint query of Multiple folders and Geodatabase.

Map Services supports time-aware layers:
ArcGIS provides a time-aware layer to store datasets that have expired. We can use ArcMap to create many time-aware layers. When we publish map data to ArcGIS Server, time-aware information is saved and can be accessed through map service. We can use this information to change the Map Display Effect or execute time queries.

The WMS service layer can be referenced by name:
Previously, we wanted to reference the WMS Map Service released by ArcGIS Server in the form of ID. Now we can reference it using the name string.

Added the attribute of the maximum number of records in arccatalog and manager.
ArcGIS Server can set a default value to query the number of returned results. Previously, we could only modify this value by changing the service configuration file. Now this can be modified through arccatalog and manager.

Complete cache storage mechanism:
ArcGIS 10 has brought us a complete cache mechanism, replacing the previous tile-type storage mechanism. The new cache mechanism uses a small amount of files to store cached data, occupying less disk space. The cache files of ArcGIS 10 can be flexibly moved to another computer, facilitating application deployment.

Mixed-mode cache:
You can use different image formats in the same cache. This helps when one grid is cached and displayed on another grid cache. We can use an image in JPEG format as the intermediate cache, and the image format in png32 can be used around the cache, so that the surrounding area is transparent.

Cache can be considered as a grid Dataset:
You can use the "add data" button to add cache files to ArcMap or arcglobe. Select a cache directory in your local disk to add a cache dataset, just like adding other datasets. In this step, the map service dependent on this cache will be deleted.

Add a common cache creation tool:
The new tool is used to import and export tile data from the cache directory. This makes it easier for us to share cached data in the same region.

The default tile size is changed to 256x256:
The default tile size of ArcGIS Server 10 is 256 × 256, which is the same as that of Google and Bing Maps maps.

Use ArcGIS Explorer and arcglobe to create a map cache:
When we want to create a 2D cache through ArcGIS online/Google Maps/Bing Maps, this method is faster than creating a 3D cache directly in arcglobe. This method helps you browse 2D and 3D data in ArcGIS Explorer, and you only need to create a map cache.