Short answer: No. Long answer: repository is responsible for turning persisted data back to entities (models) and vice versa. Model is a business Model representing a business entity. DTO on the other hand – while looks like Model – is concerned with transfer of the object between various environment and in essence is a transient … Read more
I would do neither. Ideally both MVC and ServiceStack should use and share pure C# dependencies. A good example of an MVC + ServiceStack website living harmoniously together is in the SocialBootstrapApi demo project, which has been deployed on AppHarbor at: http://bootstrapapi.apphb.com I would register all your dependencies in your ServiceStack AppHost then register an … Read more
Having the service layer be a wrapper around the DAO is a common anti-pattern. In the example you give it is certainly not very useful. Using a service layer means you get several benefits: you get to make a clear distinction between web type activity best done in the controller and generic business logic that … Read more
All of this depends on the intention and requirements of your application. That said, here’s my suggestion for “mid scale” (not a local restaurant, and not Twitter/Facebook) web applications. Lean Domain Modeling Dry POCO style objects, preferably ignorant to the MVC architecture of your web application to remain as loosely coupled from your particular implementation … Read more
It’s because you threw a RuntimeException from an EJB. When such RuntimeException is not annotated with @ApplicationException, then the EJB container will wrap it in an javax.ejb.EJBException and rethrow it. This is done so because runtime exceptions are usually only used to indicate bugs in code logic, i.e. programmer’s mistakes and not enduser’s mistakes. You … Read more
Repository Layer gives you additional level of abstraction over data access. Instead of writing var context = new DatabaseContext(); return CreateObjectQuery<Type>().Where(t => t.ID == param).First(); to get a single item from database, you use repository interface public interface IRepository<T> { IQueryable<T> List(); bool Create(T item); bool Delete(int id); T Get(int id); bool SaveChanges(); } and … Read more
JSF 2.3+ If you’re already on JSF 2.3 or newer, and want to inject CDI-supported artifacts via e.g. @EJB, @PersistenceContext or @Inject, then simply add managed=true to the @FacesValidator annotation to make it CDI-managed. @FacesValidator(value=”emailExistValidator”, managed=true) JSF 2.2- If you’re not on JSF 2.3 or newer yet, then you basically need to make it a … Read more
The service layer (the business model) should be designed around the main entity (the data model). E.g. UserService for User, ProductService for Product, OrderService for Order, etc. You should absolutely not have one huge service class or so. That’s extreme tight coupling. As to the service layer API itself, Java EE 6 offers EJB 3.1 … Read more
First of all, Spring and EJB(+JTA) are competing technologies and usually not to be used together in the same application. Choose the one or the other. Spring or EJB(+JTA). I won’t tell you which to choose, I will only tell you a bit of history and the facts so that you can easier make the … Read more