Business Logic Entry Point Vocabulary

Goal

Recognize the many names that software developers use in practice for business-logic entry points and treat them as synonyms for the same concept.

Developers, architects, and codebases frequently call business-logic entry points by different names depending on the tradition, framework, or architectural style they follow. These names all refer to the same idea: a function, method or class that a caller invokes to trigger business logic.

Common Names

The following terms are commonly used to refer to business-logic entry points: