

Improved Nonspatial Data Provider Support For information about Map Builder, see Chapter 9. The base map panel also supports identifying features (and a list of rendered themes) on mouse clicks. The Map Builder tool now supports the creation of WFS themes and Annotation Text-based themes. For information about WFS themes, see Section 2.3.7. WFS theme support also works with Oracle Maps for example, you can display a WFS theme as an interactive feature of interest (FOI) layer. These themes support the parsing and caching of WFS capabilities, and the use of feature conditions and queries. Web Feature Service (WFS) features can now be viewed through MapViewer's WFS themes. Users with different roles or permissions will see different feature sets when viewing the same theme. MapViewer now supports secure map rendering based on a Web user's identity.


This section describes features related to MapViewer generally, including the Map Builder Tool. For more information, see the notes at the beginning of Chapter 5, "MapViewer JSP Tag Library" and Chapter 6, "MapViewer PL/SQL API". In addition, the MapViewer JSP tag library and PL/SQL API are deprecated features. This section groups the new features into "MapViewer Core" and "Oracle Maps" subsections. This section describes major features that are new or changed since the previous release of MapViewer, which was included in Oracle Application Server Release 10.1.3.1.
