Service

See Services

The process by which someone who is being sued receives copies of the complaint and the summons, telling her/him when to come to court. In Housing Court, service is most commonly performed by someone who is not a party to the lawsuit by physically handing a copy of the summons and complaint to the defendant; this is called "personal service." If the defendant cannot be found, service can be accomplished by "substitute service," or by mailing and posting.

The formal delivery of a legal notice or document.

Service refers to the act of providing a copy of the papers being filed to the opposing party.

A program, routine, or process that performs a specific system function to support other programs, particularly at a low (close to the hardware) level. When services are provided over a network, they can be published in Active Directory Domain Services, facilitating service-centric administration and usage. Some examples of services are the Security Accounts Manager service, the Terminal Services Licensing service, and the Routing and Remote Access service.

jobs that can be done to your data upon the web. It accomplishes this by having various components in the stack that perform tasks upon your data. Genres of services include numerous buzz terms with "aa" in the middle of them: HaaS, IaaS, CaaS, etc**. However the purpose of this report, there are only two genres of services that repositories need to concern themselves with: SaaS and PaaS.

A service in the most general sense is something, usually one or more software components, which responds to client requests. An electronic bookstore application is a service. The database component of the bookstore provides a data base service to the bookstore. Thus high level, abstract services may be recursively decomposed into lower level constituent services. In general, a service and all off its decomposable sub services are considered to be grid components within the context of the EGA reference model. In general the term should be qualified or its meaning made obvious through context. See also: Grid Component

Something you do for someone else to make them happy, like giving them the time of day (or of their life). On some machines, well-known services are listed by the getservent function.

1. In the Open Systems Interconnection--Reference Model (OSI--RM), a capability of a given layer, and the layers below it, that (a) is provided to the entities of the next higher layer and (b) for a given layer, is provided at the interface between the given layer and the next higher layer. 2. This term is used as a generic reference to distributed applications that provide "services" to other applications [ECMATR46]. 3. The association for a particular time of a user identification, a subject and a security clearance [CESG].