Used to allow peer GeoSpatial resources to associate with each other.
This interface is used (by the local catalog) to determine associated IResolve handles to the one provided.
In the wild associations are captured in the following manner:
- informally: as with GeoServer and MapServer URL based pattern matching
- formally: with a CSW 2.0 assoication model (a plugin will need to implement this interface allowing uDig to make the correct queriest to the association model)
- formally: with OWS metadata, as with WMS Layer resource URL pointing to a WFS service
@author Jody Garnett