Software Architect's Handbook

Entity service

This service model has an agnostic functional context, meaning its logic is not bound to a single business process and is reusable. Entity services are business-centric services that are associated with one or more business entities. They are sometimes referred to as entity-centric business services or business entity services.

Business entities come from the business domain, and involving people on the team who thoroughly understand the business domain and business processes will be beneficial in performing the analysis needed to determine the appropriate entity services. Entity services may compose utility services in their logic.