Showing data from non rest service

[vinayb]

HI All,

I want to show data on Map , but from my understanding about arcGis , i have to really on data provided from arcGis rest service .But if my application needs data which is very specific to my application then i have to write ajax call from javascript which would fetch data from my application and show it on map.How feasible is this solution would there be lot of performs issue , has anybody tried this.Please let me know good approach for this.

[ReneRubalcava]

Take a look at the documentation on esri/request.
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jshelp/inside_esri_request.html

It can handle making the request calls for you and then it is up to you how you want to display that data in your application.
It however looks like the links to the sample apps from that page are not working, but it should give you a good start.

[JohnGravois]

sorry about those links, they are 404ing because of incorrect casing.

here are the corrected links, we'll get them updated in the resource center shortly as well.

https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/data_requestPlainText.html
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/data_requestXML.html
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/data_requestJson.html
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/data_requestJsonp.html