Chapter 2. Setting Up the Basic Web Application

In the previous chapter, we introduced the Bestaurants project. We proposed an interface that gave us a good idea of what the web application will look like based on the project requirements. We also designed an architecture, which illustrated the different components that the project will consist of. We haven't done any development but we managed to set up ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Server, and published the Bestaurants database as a service.

In this chapter, we will set up the web server on which the web application will run. We will spend the rest of the chapter implementing the interface we designed in the previous chapter and will add some ArcGIS code that will connect to the service we have published. We will slowly continue adding functionalities to the web application. This theme will continue throughout the book until the web application is completed in the last chapter.

For this chapter, it is recommended that...