On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0700, andydale wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty new to using OpenLayers, and am now running into some issues.
>
> I can use OpenLayers with WMS layers from the GeoServer (war install) with
> out any problem. The issue occurs when trying to use a WFS layer like
> below.
>
> wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.WFS("WFS fixpoint",
> "http://172.16.135.144:8080/geoserver/wfs?";,
> {typename: "topp:fixpoint" ,maxfeatures: "100"},
> {featureClass: OpenLayers.Feature.WFS} );
>
> This layers in not drawn on the map, but causes no errors. After seaching
> around on the net and forums i have discovered that i must set the
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost to get the WFS layer to be displayed, and have seen
> many examples such as this:
>
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost="/proxy/?url=";
>
> The above will not work for me, how can i set the proxy host within JBoss.
> The page i am using openlayers on is a .jsp (using jsf), packed inside a
> simple .war archive. Has anybody managed to set up the ProxyHost under
> JBoss before ? Is it just a matter of packing something (python script ??)
> into my war archive ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated .
The best thing for you to do is probably to get the OpenLayers file
served from within GeoServer. So, your OpenLayers HTML should be at
http://172.16.135.144:8080/openlayers/ or whatever. Once you do that,
you don't need a proxyhost anymore. Anything else is going to be vastly
more complex.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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