GUI-less option

TravisDillon

Hello

Are there any SDK options (Java and/or non-Java) that can be used without a GUI.  For example, a process running on a server that can render complex maps and save them as images to a database.  I'm currently unable to use the Java SDK due to it's JavaFX requirement on the MapView class.  My current environment is fairly restrictive and I'm unable to get around the JavaFX requirement.  It would be nice if there was a "View" class that had similar capabilities to the MapView class, but it's sole purpose was to render the View to various image formats instead of to the JavaFX Stage.

Thanks

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Travis Dillon

Nicholas-Furness

Hi Travis Dillon,

Unfortunately Runtime isn't going to fit the bill here. As Mark mentioned it's not built for a server-side environment and while you might technically get it to work in limited use-cases, it is currently against our terms.‌

After asking around a bit, it seems perhaps the best option would be to publish a GeoProcessing tool to ArcGIS Server.  There should be GP tools available for you to publish a GP service from Pro that does what you're after (reading KML to Feature Classes, rendering maps, outputting PDFs/images etc). Or instead of publishing a GP service, you could build a Python script to run on an ArcGIS Server machine, but either way you would need a regular VM with ArcGIS Server installed.

Sorry I don't have a better answer than that, but I hope that helps some.

Nick.