We are developing multiple web services in C# using WCF, but we´re new doing it.
So, for what we have read and learnt, this is our approach:
- We have a class library that we called CommonLibrary that has a few classes that are going to be used on all our services (language stuff, type of user connected and a common object that all the services are meant to return).
- We have another class library called SecurityLibrary which validates the user that is consuming the method.
- At the moment we have 2 services that are almost at 90% finished, both of them use CommonLibrary and SecurityLibrary.
Now the questions:
- Is this a bad approach?
- Are we violating the SOA principles of encapsulation and autonomy by using common/shared library with each of our services?
- A third person told us to copy all the code of those libraries on each of our services so we have a 100% autonomous service, is this the right way? I think is hard for maintenance and shows a lot of duplicity. Any update made on one has to be replicated or merged on those other services…
Thanks for your time helping us to clarify this.