ArcWeb Services offer developers a rich set of Web services
application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating mapping
functionality and GIS content into browser, desktop, mobile, and server
applications to help solve many different types of business problems
such as analyzing demographics for economic development and real-time
tracking of vehicles for fleet management.
ArcWeb Services offer the following features:
- APIs including SOAP, JavaScript, REST, OpenLS, and J2ME
- An extensive set of tutorials, live code examples, and code
downloads for platforms including C#.NET, ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages
(JSP), and ColdFusion MX
- Data from more than 20 leading commercial mapping data and content providers
- APIs and data hosted by ESRI