Top "Service-layer" questions

A Service Layer represents one application boundary and consists of a set of available operations from the perspective of interfacing client layers.

Difference between Repository and Service Layer?

In OOP Design Patterns, what is the difference between the Repository Pattern and a Service Layer? I am working on …

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Why use service layer?

I looked at the example on http://solitarygeek.com/java/developing-a-simple-java-application-with-spring/comment-page-1#comment-1639 I'm trying to figure out why the …

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Fat model / thin controller vs. Service layer

I have been developing enterprise applications for many years using .Net My apps usually have a domain model containing entities …

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Service Layer vs Business Layer in architecting web applications?

I know this might sound silly but I am finding it hard to understand the need of a service layer …

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Should a service layer return view models for an MVC application?

Say you have an ASP.NET MVC project and are using a service layer, such as in this contact manager …

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ASP.NET MVC Business Logic in Domain Model vs Service Layer

I have been reading about where to put business logic in ASP.NET MVC Project for a while and I …

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Are Doctrine2 repositories a good place to save my entities?

When I read docs about repositories, it is often to work with entities & collection but in a "read-only" manner. …

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what's the difference between service layer and domain model layer

for example, I have a user table, to be layer-ing, I create such POJOs: UserEntity.java UserDao.java UserBO.java (…

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Should the repository layer return data-transfer-objects (DTO)?

I have a repository layer that is responsible for my data-access, which is called by a service layer. The service …

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Conventions for naming service classes

I'm developing a simple Java application for doing CRUD operations against a database through a RESTful API. It's divided into …

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