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For developing applications ArcGIS 9 provides programmers to:

• Configure and Customise existing ArcGIS Desktop range of software - ArcInfo, ArcEditor and ArcView (all ArcMap and ArcCatalog customisation) - Just like customising MS Access with VBA or VB DLLs you can alter, improve and customise existing off the shelf software.
• Embed GIS software in other standalone applications - develop new applications (exe, DLLs, COM) and integrate them
• Build, Test and deploy custom GIS applications from scratch - ArcGIS Engine can be used to create these standalone applications / software in the desktop or workstation level
• Geoprocessing - use Python/JScript/VBScript and/or Model Builder to process and analyse GIS data. Scripting of GIS workflow can also be done using the above languages.
• Build Web Services and Web Applications - Use ArcGIS Server for a fully functional GIS application on the web that can support editing/geoprocessing and much more.

The allied defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 was the most decisive event of recent history and presented a challenge to painters. Turner visited the battlefield in 1817 to research the topography and troop deployments. Rather than the battle itself, and an overt celebration of a British victory, Turner painted a compassionate and tragic visualisation of the aftermath, with both sides united in death and French women searching among the corpses for their loved ones. When first exhibited alongside the passage from Byron which inspired it, this picture struck some commentators as unpatriotic.