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What's New in 9.3

Here are just a few of the quality enhancements and new features you get with ArcGIS Server 9.3.

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New REST and JavaScript APIs

These APIs will dramatically simplify your development experience and enable you to deliver fast and user-friendly mashup GIS Web applications.

The JavaScript libraries will also let you embed ArcGIS Server maps, geocoding, and geoprocessing services into Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

New Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Support

Additional support for OGC standards including Web Coverage Service (WCS), Transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T), and Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) support for WMS provides you with open and more flexible solutions.

KML 2.1 support has also been greatly enhanced and will improve your ability to integrate with virtually all the commonly accepted GIS and IT standards.

New PostgreSQL Support

Giving you the ability to store and manage spatial information in this open source database system.

New Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA) File Support

Furthering your ability to interoperate with industry standard 3D authoring tools for rich shading and texturing effects.

Improved Performance

On-demand caching and improved caching geoprocessing tools will allow you to create faster mapping services.

New image services will let you quickly publish imagery that is optimized for the Web.

Better Diagnostics

Precise logs will enable you to easily identify bottlenecks and points of failure and improve your installation and configuration experience.

Enhanced Security

New options, including Role-based security, in Manager will make it easier for you to secure Web services and Web applications.

More Documentation

Major additions have been made to the online help and SDK documentation.

A new ArcGIS Server Resource Center brings together the set of online resources to help make you successful including blogs, samples, and best practices information.
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