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  <properties>
    <author email="craigmcc@apache.org">Craig R. McClanahan</author>
    <title>The Service Component</title>
  </properties>

<body>


<section name="Introduction">

  <p>A <strong>Service</strong> element represents the combination of one or
  more <strong>Connector</strong> components that share a single
  <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> component for processing incoming
  requests.  One or more <strong>Service</strong> elements may be nested
  inside a <a href="server.html">Server</a> element.</p>

</section>


<section name="Attributes">

  <subsection name="Common Attributes">

  <p>All implementations of <strong>Service</strong>
  support the following attributes:</p>

  <attributes>

    <attribute name="className" required="false">
      <p>Java class name of the implementation to use.  This class must
      implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Service</code> interface.
      If no class name is specified, the standard implementation will
      be used.</p>
    </attribute>

    <attribute name="name" required="true">
      <p>The display name of this <strong>Service</strong>, which will
      be included in log messages if you utilize standard Catalina
      components.  The name of each <strong>Service</strong> that is
      associated with a particular <a href="server.html">Server</a>
      must be unique.</p>
    </attribute>

  </attributes>

  </subsection>

  <subsection name="Standard Implementation">

  <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Service</strong> is
  <strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService</strong>.
  It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
  common attributes listed above):</p>

  <attributes>

  </attributes>

  </subsection>

</section>


<section name="Nested Components">

  <p>The only components that may be nested inside a <strong>Service</strong>
  element are one or more <strong>Connector</strong> elements,
  followed by exactly one <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> element.</p>

</section>


<section name="Special Features">

  <p>There are no special features associated with a <strong>Service</strong>.
  </p>

</section>


</body>

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