Question

Let’s say we have a back-end that needs to talk to N external systems using some kind of Web Services.

What I do is: Create a separate project and generate there the proxy classes (using the service’s WSDL in the WCF Service Reference dialog).

About the project name suffix:

I firstly though XxAdapter. But then, I started creating classes with additional logic like CircuitBreakers so I ended up with XxAgent (from ServiceAgent).

What should be the “correct” suffix for the name of such projects.

Answer 1

The most appropriate suffix is “Proxies” because of several reasons:

1. Your component contains all the web service proxy classes.

2. In case that you want to make calls to several service proxies transparent, you can create a new class named MyLocalProxy, and perform the action

   public class MyServiceProxy
   {
   public void DoSomething()
   {
   var serviceProxy1 = new ServiceProxy1();
   serviceProxy1.DoOneThing();

           var serviceProxy2 = new ServiceProxy2();
   
           serviceProxy2.DoAnotherThing();
       }
   }
   

The additional class helps you to not depend on concrete service proxies, so you can interchange them as you wish.

Cheers.