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Identifying Domain Services & Application Services when doing DDD
-I'm trying to figure out how to identify Application Services in my application. I think I can identify a Domain service by 2 things:
It acts as a facade to the repository.
It holds business logic ...
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Service layer design
I am developing an MVC website in PHP, and for the first time, I would like to implement a service layer. I have some design considerations I would like to get some advice on. The backend will by no ...
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Should business services cross bounded contexts?
Firstly, I am following the convention that a bounded context is synonymous to a department, or possibly one department has 1 to many bounded contexts.
We have a client consultancy department that ...
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Motivation for a service layer (instead of just copying dlls)?
I'm creating an application which has 2 different UIs so I'm making it with a service layer which I understood is appropriate for such scenario.
However I found myself just creating web methods for ...
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Service Layer - how broad should it be, and should it also be used from the local application?
The background:
I need to build a desktop application with some operations (CRUD and more) (=winforms), I need to make another application which will re-use some of the functions of the main ...
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How essential is it to make a service layer?
I started building an app in 3 layers (DAL, BL, UI) [it mainly handles CRM, some sales reports and inventory].
A colleague told me that I must move to service layer pattern, that developers came to ...
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Advise on How To migrate a huge monolithic java application towards something service-oriented
I am confronted with the problem of migrating a huge monolithic java web application towards a more service oriented approach. The application has grown for years from what it was originally desinged ...
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Data service API design
We're designing a data service that will store a large number of statistics about stocks, including historical data. The client will be a web application, which will need to pull various bits of data ...
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Service Registry - is it needed?
Suppose you develop a system that has multiple services (implemented by different teams, in different countries, using different technologies including java, php, c#, c++ and more). Let's assume that ...
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How to decide whether to implement an operation as Entity operation vs Service operation in Domain Driven Design?
I am reading Evans's Domain Driven Design. The book says that there are entity and there are services. If I were to implement an operation, how to decide whether I should add it as a method on an ...
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What is a recommended pattern for REST endpoints planning for foresighted changes
Trying to design an API for external applications with foresight for change isn't easy, but a little thought up front can make life easier later on. I'm trying to establish a scheme that will support ...
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Are service locators really that bad?
People say Service Locators are bad because they expose the dependencies in some random method from the class (and not in the constructor's arguments like it should):
class A{
function F(){
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Should I require users to register to use my app?
So I'm very close to releasing an app I've been working on, and the server I integrate with allows me to register users. So I was wondering if I should require users to register with the app before ...
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How do we call a concept when my acceptor loop is ran by some real application while all services are plugins for that application?
So say we have an app (server) that somehow attaches to itself plugins (services) in form of .dll or .so libraries. Is there any nice short name for such server behaviour model?
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How can you effectively use web services in an enterprise environment if you can't use transactions?
The place I'm working at is trying to establish some ground rules, and the debate we're having now is local libraries vs web services for code reuse. Web services seem to be the popular pick in most ...
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What are the practical uses of Windows Services?
I am new to working with Windows Services. Although I have learnt to create Windows Services in VS2010 I would like to know some practical ways in which windows services could be used?
I tried ...
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Why use services (REST/SOAP) instead of a library?
Let's say you're looking at breaking up your applications into services. Are there any good reasons to adopt a SOA approach vs. just creating a library API that can be loaded by the applications that ...
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What do I need to know to move from Win32 client development to .NET services?
I’m not new to programming - for the last 4 years I’ve written C++ code for Windows client applications, but I’m considering a career change into the world of .net services. I expect this sort of ...
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In-process SOA?
Can DI/IoC be used for a simplified, local SOA?
I have been reading up on SOA (examples: here, here and here) and it seems that at first a lot of the attention was at interoperability and enabeling ...
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Designing around the constraints of external services in a client-server architecture
Suppose you have a client that interfaces with a server which in turn invokes an external service to fulfill some of the client's requests. I'm designing the client and server and need to accommodate ...
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How to design a system that allows for multiple parallel extensions of the same “component”?
As a player, I found the following problems about creating and using "extensions" (aka mods) for games:
1) Whenever the game is updated, all the mods break.
2) Most mods don't work with each ...
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Naming a class that decides to retrieve things from cache or a service + architecture evaluation
I'm a junior developer and I'm working on a pet project that I want to learn as much as possible from.
I have the following scenario:
There's a WCF service that I use to retrieve and update data, ...
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How to structure a project that supports multiple versions of a service?
I'm hoping for some tips on creating a project (ASP.NET MVC, but I guess it doesn't really matter) against multiples versions of a service (in this case, actually multiple sets of WCF services).
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Best way to expose a data-oriented service
I'm currently tasked with writing a wcf service that, for now, will only used inside the company network, the problem is that I'm not sure how I should handle the operations it exposes.
The software ...
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Web api authentication techniques
We have a asp.net MVC web service framework for serving out xml/json for peoples Get requests but are struggling to figure out the best way (fast, easy, trivial for users coding with javascript or OO ...
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How do you protect your WCF service?
sometimes a programmer comes up with a brilliant idea to protect his/her webservice created with Windows Communication Foundation.
I would like to hear from you guys, which techniques do you use to ...
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How do you feel about using online Version Control Systems?
I have been running my own home-based server for ages for my own personal code, and have tried one system or another (SVN, VSS, etc). But recently, I've enjoyed having some more precious (no source ...
