问题
What is the difference between the terms Factory, Provider and Service?
Just getting into NHibernate and its Repository pattern (POCO classes, etc).
回答1:
Factory: Assembles classes, either by composing a bunch of bits together, or choosing type based on some kind of context
Provider: Provider is something microsoft "invented" (basically an abstract factory pattern) that is a way of doing a factory of factories, or having a common factory interface which allows factories to be swappable. It is used all over in the MS web stack as a way to keep components configurable.
Service: A service is a group of related functionality. Think of it as if you are splitting your architecture horizontally, you have a "Business Logic" layer, if you split that vertically you will have services.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849618/difference-between-a-factory-provider-and-a-service