What's the right approach to aggregate information from distinct components in layered software?











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There's much information on the internet about layered software design, but I could not find the answer for a common problem: should I aggregate information from distinct components (or entities) acessing sibling components or components from the layer below?



Suppose I have the following scenario:



Business Layer: ConsumerBO, OrdersBO, MessagesBO ...
Data Layer: ConsumerDAO, OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO ...



The relation between ConsumerBO x ConsumerDAO, OrdersBO x OrdersDAO and so on is clear. But if I ever need to write a method on ConsumersBO that aggregates information from ConsumersDAO, OrdersDAO and MessagesDAO, should I do it by making ConsumersBO access methods from its siblings (eg.: OrderBO and MessagesBO) OR from components on the layer below (eg.: OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO)? Why?



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  • As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
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There's much information on the internet about layered software design, but I could not find the answer for a common problem: should I aggregate information from distinct components (or entities) acessing sibling components or components from the layer below?



Suppose I have the following scenario:



Business Layer: ConsumerBO, OrdersBO, MessagesBO ...
Data Layer: ConsumerDAO, OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO ...



The relation between ConsumerBO x ConsumerDAO, OrdersBO x OrdersDAO and so on is clear. But if I ever need to write a method on ConsumersBO that aggregates information from ConsumersDAO, OrdersDAO and MessagesDAO, should I do it by making ConsumersBO access methods from its siblings (eg.: OrderBO and MessagesBO) OR from components on the layer below (eg.: OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO)? Why?



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  • As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
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There's much information on the internet about layered software design, but I could not find the answer for a common problem: should I aggregate information from distinct components (or entities) acessing sibling components or components from the layer below?



Suppose I have the following scenario:



Business Layer: ConsumerBO, OrdersBO, MessagesBO ...
Data Layer: ConsumerDAO, OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO ...



The relation between ConsumerBO x ConsumerDAO, OrdersBO x OrdersDAO and so on is clear. But if I ever need to write a method on ConsumersBO that aggregates information from ConsumersDAO, OrdersDAO and MessagesDAO, should I do it by making ConsumersBO access methods from its siblings (eg.: OrderBO and MessagesBO) OR from components on the layer below (eg.: OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO)? Why?



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There's much information on the internet about layered software design, but I could not find the answer for a common problem: should I aggregate information from distinct components (or entities) acessing sibling components or components from the layer below?



Suppose I have the following scenario:



Business Layer: ConsumerBO, OrdersBO, MessagesBO ...
Data Layer: ConsumerDAO, OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO ...



The relation between ConsumerBO x ConsumerDAO, OrdersBO x OrdersDAO and so on is clear. But if I ever need to write a method on ConsumersBO that aggregates information from ConsumersDAO, OrdersDAO and MessagesDAO, should I do it by making ConsumersBO access methods from its siblings (eg.: OrderBO and MessagesBO) OR from components on the layer below (eg.: OrdersDAO, MessagesDAO)? Why?



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  • As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
    – Cotta
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  • As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
    – Cotta
    Nov 11 at 0:16
















As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
– Cotta
Nov 11 at 0:16




As a side note I usually using the sibling components approach, for reasons like avoiding replicating logic that is already implemented on the sibling component (and that will be lost if we go directly on the layer below). But on the n-tier pattern articles I don't find any "formal" indication that it's the right approach.
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If possible, try to make your business classes depend on their siblings. This aims to reduce the coupling between the layers which is always a good thing.



Notice that Business Layer should never depend directly on Data Layer because the former is more abstract than the later. Often we let business classes depend on interfaces which are implemented by classes in Data Layer. For example, the CustomerBO will use the ICustomerDAO interface which belongs to Business Layer, instead of the concrete CustomerDAO class which belongs to Data Layer.






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    If possible, try to make your business classes depend on their siblings. This aims to reduce the coupling between the layers which is always a good thing.



    Notice that Business Layer should never depend directly on Data Layer because the former is more abstract than the later. Often we let business classes depend on interfaces which are implemented by classes in Data Layer. For example, the CustomerBO will use the ICustomerDAO interface which belongs to Business Layer, instead of the concrete CustomerDAO class which belongs to Data Layer.






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      If possible, try to make your business classes depend on their siblings. This aims to reduce the coupling between the layers which is always a good thing.



      Notice that Business Layer should never depend directly on Data Layer because the former is more abstract than the later. Often we let business classes depend on interfaces which are implemented by classes in Data Layer. For example, the CustomerBO will use the ICustomerDAO interface which belongs to Business Layer, instead of the concrete CustomerDAO class which belongs to Data Layer.






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        If possible, try to make your business classes depend on their siblings. This aims to reduce the coupling between the layers which is always a good thing.



        Notice that Business Layer should never depend directly on Data Layer because the former is more abstract than the later. Often we let business classes depend on interfaces which are implemented by classes in Data Layer. For example, the CustomerBO will use the ICustomerDAO interface which belongs to Business Layer, instead of the concrete CustomerDAO class which belongs to Data Layer.






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        If possible, try to make your business classes depend on their siblings. This aims to reduce the coupling between the layers which is always a good thing.



        Notice that Business Layer should never depend directly on Data Layer because the former is more abstract than the later. Often we let business classes depend on interfaces which are implemented by classes in Data Layer. For example, the CustomerBO will use the ICustomerDAO interface which belongs to Business Layer, instead of the concrete CustomerDAO class which belongs to Data Layer.







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