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Single Responsibility principle VS KISS principle

Let's assume the modeling of User model in a context of a social network. User concept is composed of two notions: Authentication elements like userName/Password/Email etc... Extra data information ...
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DDD Model Design and Repository Persistence Performance Considerations

So I have been reading about DDD for some time and trying to figure out the best approach on several issues. I tend to agree that I should design my model in a persistent agnostic manner. And that ...
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Can the following Domain Entity contain logic for creating/deleting other entities?

a) As far as I understand it, in most cases Domain Model DM doesn't contain code for creating/deleting domain entities, but instead it is the job of layers ( ie service layer or UI layer ) on top of ...
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Should a domain expert make class diagrams?

The domain expert in our team uses UML class diagrams to model the domain model. As a result, the class diagrams are more of technical models rather than domain models (it serves of some sort of ...
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Resources on securing domain models? [closed]

I'm have good resources on both security, domain modelling, and architecture patterns. I've noticed a distinct lack of any suggestion of how and where to integrate security into the systems I build. I ...
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Accessing Repositories from Domain

Say we have a task logging system, when a task is logged, the user specifies a category and the task defaults to a status of 'Outstanding'. Assume in this instance that Category and Status have to be ...
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Domain Models (PHP)

I have been programming in PHP for several years and have, in the past, adopted methods of my own to handle data within my applications. I have built my own MVC, in the past, and have a reasonable ...
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Resources for popular domain models

I have come across many situations where I had to build a system for a library or a clinic or other popular domains. The thing is a domain model for a library was probably done 1000 times already with ...
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Are factors such as Intellisense support and strong typing enough to justify the use of an 'Anaemic Domain Model'?

It's easy to accept that objects should be used in all layers except a layer nominated as a data layer. However, it's just as easy to end-up with an 'anaemic domain model' that is just an object ...
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Justification for bidirectional relationship

I typically try and avoid bidirectional relationships at all costs. Recently I've been trying to follow a more domain centric design philosophy and I'm looking for advice in the best way to solve a ...
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Are Persistence-Ignorant objects able to implement lazy loading?

Persistence Ignorance is an application of single responsibility principle, which in practice means that Domain Objects (DO) shouldn't contain code related to persistence, instead they should only ...
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DDD: Developing the Domain Model alone

In DDD examples it seems the common method for developing the domain model is to sit with domain experts and iterate over versions of the model, say on a whiteboard, continually modifying it and ...
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How should I include third-party models in my domain model?

I'm currently trying to design a little application using Domain Driven Design but I'm afraid I don't really get the concept yet. Let me try to explain this as clearly as possible. public interface ...
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Are Domain Objects in Domain Driven Design only supposed to be write-only?

I've been reading about Domain Driven Design for almost two years and have been cautiously been introducing some concepts in to my daily work or at least making plans for how things I do regularly ...
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DDD with ORM where should the business logic go?

I have used an MDA (model driven architecture) tool in the past where we modeled via UML and this generated the business entities (our domain model) and the ORM (mapping etc) amongst other things. A ...
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Do ORM POCOs replace domain entities?

This is somewhat similar to this question but more broad. In general, with ORMs like EF 4.1 supporting POCOs, does it now make sense to have your domain entities be the objects that are persisted to ...
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Should the domain model include all the domain entities in my project?

I have currently reading Grails and I love it. In order to get hands on experience with Grails I decided to create a web application for some Management System. Ya as you can guess there are plenty of ...
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With all of these services, how can I not be anemic?

Where do we draw the line between delegation and encapsulation of business logic? It seems to me that the more we delegate, the more anemic we become. However, delegation also promotes reuse and the ...