Domain Driven Design: Domain Service, Application Service [closed]

Services come in 3 flavours: Domain Services, Application Services, and Infrastructure Services.

  • Domain Services : Encapsulates
    business logic that doesn’t naturally
    fit within a domain object, and are NOT typical CRUD operations – those would belong to a Repository.
  • Application Services : Used by
    external consumers to talk to your
    system (think Web Services). If consumers need access to CRUD operations, they would be exposed here.
  • Infrastructure Services : Used to
    abstract technical concerns (e.g.
    MSMQ, email provider, etc).

Keeping Domain Services along with your Domain Objects is sensible – they are all focused on domain logic. And yes, you can inject Repositories into your Services.

Application Services will typically use both Domain Services and Repositories to deal with external requests.

Hope that helps!

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