ArcIMS has a number of customizing guides in PDF format. These guides provide the details for you to modify out-of-the box viewers such as the HTML and Java Custom Viewer or create applications using the ActivX or ColdFusion Connectors.

If you wish to use the Web ADF for the .NET Framework or Java Platform, the documentation about using and customizing applications in these environments are located in the respective setups.

Customizing the ArcIMS Viewers

The following books explain how to customize the HTML Viewer and the Java Custom Viewer, two Web-based applications that come with ArcIMS.

Customizing the HTML Viewer: This book explains the foundation for customizing the ArcIMS HTML Viewer. It describes the viewer's file structure and frame layout and provides a complete reference to the its function library. To customize the HTML Viewer, you primarily work with its ArcIMSparam.js parameter file and a set of JavaScript functions.

Customizing the Java Viewer: This book explains the foundation for customizing the Java Custom Viewer. It also provides reasons for customizing the viewer, the viewer's file structure and frame layout, a complete reference to the viewer's object model, and the relationship between key HTML and JavaScript files with the viewer.

Using the ArcIMS Connectors

The following books and object model diagrams provide an overview of how to use the supported connectors to create ArcIMS Web-based applications.

Note: If you wish to use the Web ADF for the .NET Framework or Java Platform, the documentation about using and customizing applications in these environments are located in the respective setups. The Java Connector API documentation, Java Connector Tag Library, and Java Connector JavaDoc are included on the Web ADF for the Java Platform CD. The .NET Link is now part of the ArcXML object library included on the Web ADF for the .NET Framework

Customizing ArcIMS - Using the ActiveX Connector: This book describes how to develop a custom ArcIMS Web-based application using Visual Basic or ASP. It includes installation and setup instructions, a tutorial, and a complete reference for the ActiveX Connector, a Component Object Model (COM) dynamic link library (DLL).

ActiveX Connector Object Model Diagram

Customizing ArcIMS - Using the ColdFusion Connector: This book explains the foundation for customizing a ColdFusion client and provides a reference to the ArcXML element specification designed to work with ColdFusion. It describes reasons for customizing the ColdFusion Connector, the ColdFusion samples provided with ArcIMS, and how different mapping functionality is implemented with ColdFusion.

General Interest

Using ArcExplorer - Java Edition: This book describes ArcExplorer - Java Edition, a Web-based application that lets you explore geographic data. It provides procedures for how to install and use the application to view and query geographic data stored on your computer or on the Web.