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    //Create a Connection to the Grid Service
    LexBIGServiceGrid lbs = new LexBIGServiceGridAdapter(gridServiceURL);
 
    //Set up the CodingSchemeIdentification object to define the Coding Scheme</font>
    CodingSchemeIdentification csid = new CodingSchemeIdentification();
    csid.setName("NCI Thesaurus");
 
    //Get the CodedNodeSet for that CodingScheme (This returns a CodedNodeSet Service Context)
    CodedNodeSetGrid cnsg = lbs.getCodingSchemeConcepts(csid, null);
    //getCodingSchemeConcepts is a Grid Service Call
 
    //Set the text to match
    MatchCriteria matchText = new MatchCriteria();
    matchText.setText("Gene");
    //Define a SearchDesignationOption, if any
    SearchDesignationOption searchOption = new SearchDesignationOption();
 
    //Choose an algorithm to do the matching
    ExtensionIdentification matchAlgorithm = new ExtensionIdentification();
    matchAlgorithm.setLexBIGExtensionName("contains");
 
    //Chose a language
    LanguageIdentification language = new LanguageIdentification();
    language.setIdentifier("en");

    //Restrict the CodedNodeSet
    cnsg.restrictToMatchingDesignations(matchText, searchOption, matchAlgorithm, language);
    //restrictToMatchingDesignations is a Grid Service Call
 
    //Create a SetResolutionPolicy to handle the details of Resolving the CodedNodeSet
    //Here, we will set the Maximum number of Concepts returned to 10.
    SetResolutionPolicy resolvePolicy = new SetResolutionPolicy();
    resolvePolicy.setMaximumToReturn(10);
 
    //Do the resolve
    ResolvedConceptReferenceList rcrlist = cnsg.resolveToList(resolvePolicy); 
    //resolveToList is a Grid Service Call
 
    //Use the returned ResolvedConceptReferenceList to print some details about the concepts found
    ResolvedConceptReference[] rcref = rcrlist.getResolvedConceptReference();
    for (int i = 0; i < rcref.length; i++) {
	System.out.println(rcref[i].getConceptCode());
	System.out.println(rcref[i].getReferencedEntry().
		getPresentation()[0].getText().getContent()); 

    }