TY - CONF A1 - Gocek, Pawel A1 - Hartmann, Michael A1 - Schleusener, Heinz T1 - Modern Technologies in client-server Architecture for Geo-Based Webportals: represented by examples for Companies in Food Technology and Food Industry T2 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Food Science, Szeged N2 - In the last decade, portals on the WWW have been extensively developed for different applications in e-business, e-commerce, e-government or science and are used as an information and communication base. Recently, due to the progression of web- technologies, new user-friendly features could be added into portals. Among them the incorporation of geographic informations became most important since many relevant data are related to space. In such a way the value and the appropriate visualization of the relevant information as well as the ability to investigate the interrelation between different data could be reached (Bernhardt, 02). Geo-based web portals combine the features of common portals like searching for keywords or navigating with geo information systems (GIS). For a certain target group they provide a unique presentation of all relevant information within a region or a market, and provide user specific communication tools. In this context, providing maps is one of the main characteristics of geo-based web portals. Creating a geo-referenced map is a challenging and complex task since all relevant geo data like streets, objects, information of the landscape etc. have to be known and incorporated into the GIS. Therefore, a geo-object in the geo-based web portal has to contain both the geo-data and the content related data. Geo-data describe the structure of an object in space whereas the content related data provide additional attributes associated with the properties of the object (Dickmann & Zehner 2001). From the point of the architecture, a web-based map application consists of two essential components - the server and the client part. Typically, the server component is responsible for providing geographical information according to the client's request and returns the data and images suitable for the visualization back to the client application. The client component provides the user with a graphical user interface (GUI). Its main tasks are collecting the user input data and communicating with the server in order to retrieve the information as well as to provide interactive mechanisms for representing analyzing the results. The communication between the client and the sever component via a HTTP port is based on a defined request-response protocol. Typical solutions are implemented using JavaScript, Java applets or Flash and are discussed in more detail in the next section. In this contribution we describe an alternative approach using the Java Applet Technology, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). It's application for offering informations of companies operating in the field of food technology and food industry is shown. In such a way it represents a realization of our recently developed concept of a geo-based web portal (Hartmann et al, 05). KW - Geo-base KW - Web-based services KW - Food technology KW - Food industry Y1 - 2014 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-srh/frontdoor/index/index/docId/534 ER -