17 Domain Services
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- An introduction to domain services
- A disambiguation from other types of service
- Advice about when to consider using domain services
- Examples of domain services for a variety of domains
- A discussion, with several examples and techniques, on how to use domain services from within the application layer and the domain model
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When building domain models, you sometimes come across concepts or behavior that do not logically sit comfortably within an entity or aggregate in the system. This is an implicit sign that you may need to create a domain service.
Confusingly, service is an overloaded term. Fortunately, though, domain services are easily distinguished based on two defining characteristics: they represent domain concepts, and they are stateless. You are most likely to use domain services to orchestrate entities and encapsulate business policies rather than carry out infrastructural plumbing; leave that to application services.
In this chapter, you learn how to build domain services that cater to different scenarios. These scenarios include exposing domain services as contracts that are implemented outside the domain model, and building pure domain services that contain ...
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