I am currently rewriting one of my projects in Java and want to implement a service layer that will be used by different clients (CLI/GUI/Web) to communicate with my core application. For now it will mostly just delegate the same calls to the Business Model, but I want to add User authentication later on and I read, that a service layer is a good hook to do so.
But I don’t know how to write a service layer in code, so that it’s easily reusable with the rest of my code.
Here is what I could think of:
- One Monolithic Service class that encapsulates all functionality of the application (Easy to inject into the client code, since it’s one class that can be used to do everything)
- Multiple Service classes, separating different functionality from each other (Better encapsulation, but more injection code)
- Multiple Service classes with a Service Provider class that knows all the other service classes (Basically option 2, but easier to inject since the Service Provider can be used to access the whole Service Layer)
- Static Service classes (Easy to access, but has all the drawbacks of static classes/methods)
Option 2 probably is the way to go, but hearing the term Service Layer, I somehow think of this big class providing me with everything I ever wanted to do with my application.
What is the correct way to implement a Service Layer?
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