What Is a Service?
To accommodate the special needs of robotics applications, MSRS uses a service as the key object. Each Web-based service contains the code needed to perform one or more functions, such as reading data from a single sensor or sending an output signal to an actuator. The service can also be used to communicate with another service or external software. A robotics application consists of multiple services that work together to achieve a common task—operating the robot. For example, Figure 2-1 is an application diagram that represents the services used to operate a LEGO Mindstorms NXT.
Figure 2-1. Multiple services work together to ...
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