Object-oriented analysis and design

Although in theory, the general idea of DDD need not be restricted to object-oriented approaches, in practice DDD seeks to exploit the powerful advantages that object-oriented techniques make possible. These include entities/aggregate roots as receivers of commands/method invocations and the encapsulation of state within foremost aggregate roots and on a higher architectural level, bounded contexts. The reader should be aware that object orientation is not exclusive to OO-only languages, but can be a part of functional programming, also. Applying commands/method invocations to an entity or aggregate root can be seen as an application of a function to a data structure where the result of the function application is an identical data structure with different data and/or version (especially version if optimistic concurrency is used). In dynamic languages such as Ruby or Smalltalk, object instances can be queried on whether they support a method (by name and/or signature), which is similar to how a statically typed language might choose to use an inversion of control container (or a service bus, or a service locator) to support runtime lookup of the objects – services – that support a given protocol/method/command (see CQRS further down).

Model-driven engineering (MDE)

Model-driven architecture (MDA)

While DDD is compatible with MDA, the intent of the two concepts is somewhat different. MDA is concerned more with the means of translating a model into code for different technology platforms than with the practice of defining better domain models.

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