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utility COM object

See Also: COM

  1. [programming] In ArcObjects, a COM object that encapsulates a large number of fine-grained ArcObjects method calls and exposes a single coarse-grained method call. Utility COM objects are installed on a GIS server and called by server applications to minimize the round-trips between the client application and the GIS server.