replace mapbuilder demos with openlayers
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Key: GEOS-1031
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1031
Project: GeoServer
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.6.0-alpha2, 1.5.0-RC4
Reporter: Chris Holmes
Assignee: Justin Deoliveira
Fix For: 1.5.1, 1.6.0-beta1
OpenLayers 2.4 (available in a RC) finally replicates all functionality of mapbuilder. And mapbuilder has intentions to merge their work with OL. So we should use OL for our demos.
First is the previews. This is a bit more involved, as you need to make it create some stub html. But the code already does that, and it should be simpler with OL, with no need for an xml file. And this should load much faster.
Second is the tasmania demo, which is already in the openlayers source code as a demo/test. Just need to copy it in to GeoServer.
Use the version of OL that they create as the 'hosted version', as it strips out all the unnecessary code. But probably should copy it and serve it from GeoServer. Would be good to investigate and see if we can control cache headers on it for the war, so it doesn't load in the browser every time. I think that's one of the main problems with the current preview stuff.
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