Summary

This chapter was full of practical exercises. You have done a lot of work with Server by now and know how powerful this product is. You now know how to consume the services you created in Chapter 2, Authoring Web Services, for visualization, editing, and analysis. You have used different GIS clients to consume these services and you have even written your own code to achieve that. You can see how diverse ArcGIS for Server is. You have data lying on your database, and Server allowed you to expose your GIS data to services supporting multiple standards and protocols. This made them capable of being used conveniently from multiple end points.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to plan and design GIS services by analyzing their requirements.