| Represents a geo spatial service handle. Follows the same design as IResource.
Represents a spatial service, which may be lazily loaded. The existance of this object does not
ensure that the advertized data is guaranteed to exist, nor does this interface guarantee that
the service exists based on this object's existance. We should also note the resource management
is left to the user, and that resolve() is not guaranteed to return the same instance object from
two subsequent calls, but may. This is merely a handle to some information about a service, and a
method of aquiring an instance of the service ...
NOTE: This may be the result of communications with a metadata service, and as such this service
handle may not have been validated yet. Remember to check the service status.
author:
David Zwiers, Refractions Research
author:
Justin Deoliveira, The Open Planning Project
since:
0.6
See Also: ServiceInfo
See Also: ServiceFinder |