.NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process

Unchained Service Factory

Intent

Provide a single Web service method to allow the Web service provider the flexibility of easily interchanging the services without directly affecting bound Web service clients. Unlike the Chained Service Factory, however, this pattern uses .NET Reflection to implement late binding. Late binding allows the Web service the ability to instantiate any back-end business object without requiring code changes at the Service Factory level. Combining a factory object with the services of Reflection provides the design with a truly loosely coupled architecture on which to build.

Problem

This pattern solves the same problems as does the Chained Service Factory. The difference lies in the problem of forcing the developer ...