[Bigdata-developers] Question on the MetadataService

[Brian M. <btm...@gm...>]

The implementation of the MetadataService implements
IMetadataService, which extends IDataService which
extends IService, ITxCommitProtocol, and IRemoteExecutor.
Additionally, MetadataService also extends DataService,
which extends AbstractService. After an initial examination
of the MetadataService implementation, I'm wondering if all
the functionality required by the IDataService interface and
provided by the DataService class is really necessary for
the MetadataService.

Was there a reason MetadataService was made a
"super service" of DataService?

Thanks,
Brian