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Architectural Patterns
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Architectural Patterns

by Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
13h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Factories

Factories are a pattern to separate the use (of the object) from the construction (of the object). Aggregates, entities, and value objects create some level of complexity within a domain model, especially with larger domain models. Factories help to express the (creation and use of) complex objects in a better manner.

The preceding diagram might help grasp a quick detail about factory creation from the DDD perspective. The following are some characteristics of factories that we would want to be refreshed with:

  • Separating use from construction
  • Encapsulating internals (and avoid exposing the internals of aggregate)
  • Hiding decisions ...
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