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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans
August 2003
Beginner to intermediate
560 pages
12h 58m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Six. The Life Cycle of a Domain Object

Every object has a life cycle. An object is born, it likely goes through various states, and it eventually dies—being either archived or deleted. Of course, many of these are simple, transient objects, created with an easy call to their constructor, used in some computation, and then abandoned to the garbage collector. There is no need to complicate such objects. But other objects have longer lives, not all of which are spent in active memory. They have complex interdependencies with other objects. They go through changes of state to which invariants apply. Managing these objects presents challenges that can easily derail an attempt at MODEL-DRIVEN DESIGN.

Figure 6.1. The life cycle of a domain object

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