Hands-On Software Architecture with Java

Chapter 11: Dealing with Data

You should know that no matter what your application does, you will end up dealing with persistence sooner or later. Whether it's a payment, a post on social media, or anything else, information has no value if it's not stored, retrieved, aggregated, modified, and so on.

For this reason, data is very much a point of concern when designing an application. The wrong modeling (as we saw in Chapter 4, Best Practices for Design and Development, when talking about Domain-Driven Development) can lead to a weak application, which will be hard to develop and maintain.

In this chapter, we are taking data modeling a step further and discussing the ways your objects and values can be stored (also known as data at rest, as opposed ...