service-layer

Presentation layer / Public Services layer. A common term?

While defining our application architecture (which contains both web UI and external web services) we stumbled upon our inability to find a common name for the topmost layer. It is quite clear that there are DAL (data access layer) and BLL (business logic layer) in our application. On the top of BLL, there reside the UI, which is commonl...

Patterns and Practices. Service layer??

Hi all, Should I be doing my automapping in my service layer or at my controller? I like the Idea of Repository - Raw data IQueryable type stuff with full domain(type) objects. Service layer - Paged, Ordered, Filtered, Automapped View model to return Controller - Push the view with the correct model But having seen some nice stuff wi...