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Service layer vs DAO -- Why both?
I have been working with SpringMVC, Hibernate, and some databases in a java web application example.
There are a few different ones that do this, but this Spring 3 and hibernate integration tutorial ...
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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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How should UI layer pass user input to BL layer?
I'm building an n-tier application, I have UI, BL, DAL & Entities (built from POCO) projects. (All projects have a reference to the Entities).
My question is - how should I pass user input from ...
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Application service layer calling database functions. Bad architecture?
Scenario:
Stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate.
Model: Client-Server Application.
Pattern: Model-View-Controller (MVC).
The Service Layer classes has three behaviors:
Some services have the business ...
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Design Patterns - Service Layer
I currently reading a lot about Design Patterns and I have been watching various Pluralsight videos from their library. Now so far I have learnt the following:
Repository Pattern
Unit of Work Pattern
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How should the service layer be done?
so I have this android app at work, if I understand it right the DAO/services/UI layers is to "decouple" the UI from the database.
I have 2 problems with that :
1/ Decoupling
Like this if things ...
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Why is code that wraps a call to a database or DAL not referred to as a client?
Both classes below implement the same interface and are in fact intended to be interchangeable one for the other. Why is the second one not referred to as a "client" in the literature?
There are ...
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Am I doing it wrong with Hibernate DAO layer? i.e. Feature Bloat
For quick prototyping I have been actively using Hibernate. Recently I came back to an old project and I wondered why I had a lot of DAOs with what I suspect is commonly named feature bloat. E.g.
I ...
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Bundling Model and Services in MVC pattern?
These days, all I hear is how MVC should contain additional layer called services, turning it into SMVC. But to me, it seems like too much of a decoupling and instead want to engineer my app something ...
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Issues with the intended behavior of a Service layer?
This analysis makes sense, and states anything that avoids code duplication and simplifies maintenance speaks for a service layer.
What is the technical behavior?
When a service client references a ...
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