| Provides support for the Open Web Service Specificaitons.
This class operates as a Factory creating request for Open Web Services.
The idea is that this class operates a Toolkit for all things assocated with
an Open Web Service specification. The various objects produced by this
toolkit are used as strategy objects for the top level AbstractOpenWebService
subclass. Example:
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WebMapServer - uses a GetCapabilitiesRequest during version negotiation.
Both name and version information that may be checked against a
GetCapabilities document during version negotiation.
Specific Open Web Service implementations can extend this interface to
include details that are specific to their specification. Example:
The Web Map Service specification includes more operations such as GetMap
and GetFeatureInfo.
Q: Why are these not static?
A: Because we want to place new specifications into a data structure
for WebMapServer to search through dynamically
author:
Jody Garnett, Refractions Reasearch
author:
rgould | 