Using tiles with OpenLayers

Now that you know how to manage caching configuration, we will explore how clients can use it. In this section, you will use an OpenLayers client to consume cached layers. You took a look at the OpenLayers library in the previous chapter, and, as usual, you do not need to be an expert; we will guide you to fully understand the basic code of the following example:

  1. We will create a new HTML file. It should be published with Apache Tomcat, so you can create it in the webapps/ROOT folder inside your Tomcat installation.
  2. Insert the following code snippet. As we are creating an HTML file, the code contains some mandatory elements. We also want to include a title for our page:
 <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>plain ...

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