Grails Anti-Pattern: Everything is a Service

The context

Grails makes it very easy to put any logic of your application in a service. Just grails create-service and you’re good to go. There’s a single instance by default, injectable anywhere. Powerful stuff and makes it easy to get up ‘n running very fast!

Creating a new application, following so-called “best practices” from blogs like these 🙂 and the ‘idiomatic Grails-way’ described in the docs and in tutorials work in the beginning, but there’s always a tipping point — where the application has grown a reasonable size — where one should start following a different, maybe less-Grailsey, strategy.

So what can go wrong by creating services in your application?