Explanation
This demonstrates rendering of Geographic Markup Language (GML) layers using browser based vector rendering - SVG and VML. The map context uses the OGC OWS Context format (specification pending) and uses Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) format to describe vector colors.
This is a first attempt to combine OpenLayers with Mapbuilder. In September 2006 during Foss4G several webmapping projects got together and decided upon a single library to render maps. This library, based upon the OpenLayers code base is what is being used here.
We, the mapbuilder community, plan to replace MapPane.js and MapPane2.js by MapPaneOL.js. This means that our future efforts will largely focus on MapPaneOL and if you plan to develop new features, we strongly urge you to use MapPaneOL where possible.As you can see MapPaneOL already supports the new WMS-C standard aka tiling and GML layers and very soon will include WFS, google, yahoo, microsoft maps and many others.
Mapbuilder tools have not been connected with MapPaneOL yet, but that is planned.
