What is the difference between the terms Factory, Provider and Service?
Just getting into NHibernate and its Repository pattern (POCO classes, etc).
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Factory: Assembles classes, either by composing a bunch of bits together, or choosing type based on some kind of context
Provider: Provider is something microsoft "invented" (basically an abstract factory pattern) that is a way of doing a factory of factories, or having a common factory interface which allows factories to be swappable. It is used all over in the MS web stack as a way to keep components configurable.
Service: A service is a group of related functionality. Think of it as if you are splitting your architecture horizontally, you have a "Business Logic" layer, if you split that vertically you will have services.
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42A service can also have the notion of having no state.. it operates on other objects to do its services, without having a state on its own. At least in Domain Driven Design. – Mike Gleason jr Couturier Dec 04 '09 at 21:27
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is the Factory will be generated instance in Angular like Service or just use the static method ? – qianjiahao Jun 03 '15 at 23:48
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1@qianjiahao a general recommendation is to avoid static methods. – Sebas Mar 28 '17 at 08:32