Before you start

There are a few things we have to do before we go into the fun part of putting your map services to use.

Getting the map service URL

To consume the services, we first need to get a unique pointer to the service. There is a dedicated URL for each standard that the map service supports. For instance, to consume the map service over SOAP, you will need a SOAP URL. This applies to REST and all OGC standards where each end point returns different results, as seen in Chapter 2, Authoring Web Services. We have shown that Server enables both REST and SOAP protocols on any published map service by default, and we have learned how to enable other standards such as WMS on the GIS service. To get the URL, we need to log in to ArcGIS for Server Manager; go ahead and click on the Manager bookmark you saved earlier. In case you didn't bookmark Manager, you can access it from here: http://GIS-SERVER01:6080/arcgis/manager. Use the credentials for the primary administrator account. You will...