Placement of service methods

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Published on 2011-11-13T17:46:19Z Indexed on 2011/11/13 17:50 UTC
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Let's assume I have two service classes with the following methods:

  • GroupService
    • createGroup()
    • deleteGroup()
    • updateGroup()
    • findGroup()
  • UserService
    • createUser()
    • deleteUser()
    • updateUser()
    • findUser()

Now, I am thinking about the aesthetics of theses classes. Imagine we want to implement a method which search for all user of a specific group. Which service class is responsible for such a method?

I mean, the return value is a user (or maybe a collection of users) but the parameter (which means the name of the group) is a group. So which service class is the better place to put this method in?

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