MapStore 2 leverages a full separation of concerns between the backend and the frontend.

The frontend is a Javascript web application communicating with MapStore 2 own web services using AJAX and external ones through an internal, configurable, proxy.

The backend is a suite of web services, developed in Java and deployed into a J2EE container (e.g. Apache Tomcat). General Infrastructure

Frontend


The frontend is based on the ReactJS library and the Redux architecture, which is a specific implementation of the Flux architecture.

Flux infrastructure

It allows plugging different mapping libraries (with Leaflet and OpenLayers 3 as our first implementation targets) abstracting libraries implementation details using ReactJS web components and actions based communication.

MapStore 2 - Frontend

Backend


Backend services include at least (but not only) these ones:

MapStore 2 - Backend