You can also use rospy's ServiceProxy without creating a node.

http://www.ros.org/wiki/rospy/Overview/Services

 - Ken

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You'll find these methods do not require you to start a node before using
> them.  http://www.ros.org/doc/api/roscpp/html/namespaceros_1_1service.html
>
> Tully
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:26 AM, trinighost <trinighost@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Has anyone come across documentation or examples which validate this
>> statement?
>>
>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Technical%20Overview#line-130 "in fact, a
>> service client does not have to be a ROS node"
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