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Figure 6.5: Service Discovery The Communication Management provides a method in the Service Skeleton class to offer the service: ara::core::Result<void> OfferService(); After the method OfferService() has been called, the service can be found by the applications. The Communication Management provides in the Service Proxy class a methods to find a service according to the InstanceIdentifier or InstanceSpecifier: static ara::core::Result<ara::com::ServiceHandleContainer< <ProxyClassName>::HandleType>> FindService(ara::com::InstanceIdentifier instance); static ara::core::Result<ara::com::ServiceHandleContainer< <ProxyClassName>::HandleType>> FindService(ara::core::InstanceSpecifier instance); These methods return a ServiceHandleContainer that can have different number of elements: • Empty: No Service Instance was found • One: A single Service instance was found • Several: Multiple Service instances were found