Highlights from the 19th ESRI User Conference ArcIms 3.0 To many people at the conference, particulary those hooked on web applications and web mapping, the release of ArcIMS 3.0 is even more exciting then the release of ArcInfo 8. ArcIMS 3.0 is being billed as the next generation Internet Mapping and distributed technology. Jack Dangermond sees this as an opportunity to open up new ways of cooperation and a means of leveraging the vast amount of existing data contained in GIS databases worldwide. There are some good reasons for you to consider putting your maps and app's on the web. Perhaps the most important is that GIS is going mainstream.
Direct data streaming allows users to integrate local data with data sets served on the internet.
You will be able to set up and publish your webpage with easy to use out of the box templates and wizards. I met a guy who built a simple application and served it on his website without knowing anything about intricate IMS procedures and customizing tools - he simply used a wizard and published the application when finished. ArcIMS enables you to administer, manage, and publish your website with ArcIMS tools. Quick performance is provided by new clients in both html and JAVA versions. The underlying principle here is that operations are handled locally rather than by a round trip to the server.