Chapter 8. Service Layers

In this chapter, we will discuss Web Experience Factory's ability to segregate responsibilities into distinct layers. Here, we will identify and discuss how models can be tailored to perform specific tasks which decouples data access and retrieval from the user interface (UI) presentation tasks.

You will learn about the following concepts:

• The Service Consumer and Service Provider patterns in WEF

• Service builders

• Service models

• UI models

• Support for testing services

While you learn about the preceding concepts, you will also build two models to help you understand these WEF concepts and builders.