Now that you know how to manage caching configuration, we will explore how to use it. In this section, you will use an OpenLayers client to consume cached layers. You had a look at OpenLayers library in the previous chapter, but if you are not yet an expert, don't worry, we will guide you to fully understand the basic code of the following example:
We will create a new HTML file. It should be published with Apache Tomcat, so you can create it in the
webapps/ROOTfolder inside your Tomcat installation.Insert the following code. As we are creating an HTML file, the code contains some mandatory elements. We also want to include a title for our page:
<html> <head> <title>Creating a simple map</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">Now add the following CSS code to add a style to the
htmlelement that will host the map canvas:<style type="text/css"> #myMap {...