idea Creating a security layer around the Flex, Javascript, and/or Silverlight Viewers, and allowing end users to configure away in Developers Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idi-p/930259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>One day our end user came to us and said, "we found this cool new tool that ESRI provides called a Flex Viewer<BR />that allows us to create our own web maps without needing you pesky IT people." Soon after they returned to<BR />us and said, "we created this map for someone, but they're telling us that not everyone should be allowed<BR />to see it. Maybe we do need you after all."</P> <P>So the issue is, how do we allow our customers to continue to create and edit their own maps, and secure<BR />the maps so that only certain people could see them. Other considerations were, retaining copies of old<BR />configuration files for back up and recovery, and using a single library of widgets for all viewers.</P> <P>Our solution was to wrap a Flex Viewer in a J2EE container, store all the configuration files in a<BR />database, and create a front end for our customers to edit the configuration files. You then have to<BR />get access to any configuration file you want to edit or view as a map.</P> <P>This has been a great success at our company. We currently have 15 flex viewers in production, and<BR />almost 40 in the development phases. All run off the same web server. All use the same library of<BR />available widgets. The viewer in use is the standard Flex Viewer from ESRI. We have upgraded it twice<BR />from 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5</P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000btOG --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:36:04 GMT MattHensley 2012-01-11T20:36:04Z Creating a security layer around the Flex, Javascript, and/or Silverlight Viewers, and allowing end users to configure away https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idi-p/930259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>One day our end user came to us and said, "we found this cool new tool that ESRI provides called a Flex Viewer<BR />that allows us to create our own web maps without needing you pesky IT people." Soon after they returned to<BR />us and said, "we created this map for someone, but they're telling us that not everyone should be allowed<BR />to see it. Maybe we do need you after all."</P> <P>So the issue is, how do we allow our customers to continue to create and edit their own maps, and secure<BR />the maps so that only certain people could see them. Other considerations were, retaining copies of old<BR />configuration files for back up and recovery, and using a single library of widgets for all viewers.</P> <P>Our solution was to wrap a Flex Viewer in a J2EE container, store all the configuration files in a<BR />database, and create a front end for our customers to edit the configuration files. You then have to<BR />get access to any configuration file you want to edit or view as a map.</P> <P>This has been a great success at our company. We currently have 15 flex viewers in production, and<BR />almost 40 in the development phases. All run off the same web server. All use the same library of<BR />available widgets. The viewer in use is the standard Flex Viewer from ESRI. We have upgraded it twice<BR />from 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5</P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000btOG --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:36:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idi-p/930259 MattHensley 2012-01-11T20:36:04Z Re: Creating a security layer around the Flex, Javascript, and/or Silverlight Viewers, and allowing end users to configure away https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idc-p/930260#M271 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>This is a good idea <!-- content transformation source ID: 00a3000000DMJEK --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:28:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idc-p/930260#M271 SenthilTt 2012-01-13T16:28:20Z Re: Creating a security layer around the Flex, Javascript, and/or Silverlight Viewers, and allowing end users to configure away https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idc-p/930261#M272 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>This idea was submitted some time ago, but I would recommend looking into Portal for ArcGIS for your security concerns and data/change management of your web applications:&nbsp;<A href="http://server.arcgis.com/en/portal/" target="_blank">http://server.arcgis.com/en/portal/</A> <!-- content transformation source ID: 00aE000000FIiWD --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:45:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-ideas/creating-a-security-layer-around-the-flex/idc-p/930261#M272 ScottPrindle 2015-11-18T22:45:59Z