ArcGIS Engine

ArcGIS Engine is a developer product introduced with ArcGIS 9 that contains everything you need to build and deploy applications that deliver custom GIS solutions.  ArcGIS Engine provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for COM, .NET, Java, and C++.  These APIs not only include detailed documentation, but they also include a series of high-level visual components that make it easy for even the casual programmer to build an ArcGIS application.

ArcGIS Engine includes the core set of components from which ArcGIS Desktop products are built. With ArcGIS Engine you can build stand-alone applications or extend existing applications to provide focused spatial solutions to both GIS and non-GIS users.

Many users require focused, industry specific access to GIS from within familiar software applications. They need much less than the full-featured GIS products, yet they may require access to sophisticated GIS logic in their application. In cases where users need customised access to GIS, ArcGIS Engine provides an alternative to general software applications.

With ArcGIS Engine, you can:

• Efficiently build and deploy custom ArcGIS applications on the desktop
• Embed GIS logic in non-GIS-centric applications
• Leverage the mapmaking capabilities of ArcGIS desktop to quickly deploy GIS applications containing quality cartographic maps
• Build focused GIS data editing applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of the geodatabase
• Build globe visualisation applications that expose spatial and 3D analysis
• Build and deploy custom network applications