In the last chapter, we looked at geoprocessing operations and the power they give you, as a developer, to define your own geospatial tasks using familiar desktop software, publish them as ArcGIS Server services, and consume them within your web mapping applications.
However, there are some geoprocessing operations that are very common. It would be reinventing the wheel to create geoprocessing tasks for them every time they are required by application developers. With that in mind, Esri has made some frequently used operations instantly available via the Geometry Service, and its more recent client-side counterpart, the Geometry Engine.
In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
- The Geometry Service
- The Geometry Engine
- Practice time with the Geometry Engine