Hi George
I have created a service context that gets the compute service object in a method and then use the various methods of compute service or metadata to get the relevant information.
By that, I assume you mean you used the ContextBuilder to create a context? If so, this only contains the *connection* information (it's conceptually pretty similar to creating a database connection with a database driver).
The actual calls are not made then - they occur when you get one of the views or provider-specific APIs from the context and invoke methods on them.
See [1] for a short introduction to some core jclouds concepts. Hope that helps!
ap [1] https://wiki.apache.org/jclouds/Core%20Concepts
