Developing Geoprocessing on Server

Or, how to do geoprocessing & make it work.

Despite being good with creating analysis processes, I'm still not completely comfortable with the Model Builder environment- it's not a complete scripting solution, and getting a model to run in a server environment has generally had problems. This session (admittedly partially given before over the web) was pretty much a best practices for developing to server (or developing a model in general) with an eye to what additional functionality is coming along in 9.3 (like layer transparency, to begin with). The slide deck (hopefully up soon) will definitely be a great reference.

Mentioned throughout the presentations today is the fact that pretty much any client, be it ArcMap, ArcExplorer, a Web ADF site, or even a mashup or python (or ruby, php, and pretty much any other language) program will be able to utilize a geoprocessing task- that really puts the onus on getting the task designed correctly in the first place.