Domain Driven Design: Another buzzword?

By Michael Scharf

A few weeks ago I bought the book "Domain Driven Design" by Eric Evans. For many years I've been very sceptical about "Design Methodologies", because they seem complicated and not really practical for the domains I've been working on. So, I did not expect too many new insight when I started reading the book....

How wrong I was! Ok, lets start from the beginning... The basic idea of Domain Driven Design is to come up with a language to describe the problem domain. This is called an "ubiquitous language", because the language is not only used in conversations but also in the formal model. The formal model is represented and implemented in the programming language of the system (e.g. java). This is a very agile process, as you understand the domain better you will update the model.

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