Friday, July 13, 2012

The Service Layer: How I understand it

There are several articles and posts out there regarding what a Service Layer is. I'm going to throw my two cents in as to what my interpretation of the Service Layer is.

Whenever I am in conversations with other devs or giving presentations about the Service Layer, I convey the following points:

A Service Class is primarily “just another object”.

When I had first started reading up on this my mind was flooded with several definitions which are all true and “click” after you understand what the Service Layer actually does. Start off thinking of a Service Classes as a normal

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Service Layer Series

It's been a while since I've posted, but this is not going to be about this topic today. This blog has been the one constant in my development career from when I could sink my teeth in enough into it to be good enough according to my intrinsic metrics to have an opinion (and think it matters) and I intend to keep it going.

As with any autodidactic programmer, I may mix up some concepts. To be quite honest, the more and more I use the Service Layer, the more it looks like an actual extension of the Model Layer than an actual layer that exists in between the model and it's clients.



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