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Implementing Domain-Driven Design
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Implementing Domain-Driven Design

by Vaughn Vernon
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
21h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Subdomains and Bounded Contexts at Work

Here’s a fairly simple example to introduce how Subdomains can be used. Think of a retail company that sells products online. The products it sells could be just about anything, so we won’t think too carefully about them. To do business in this Domain, the company must present a catalog of products to shoppers, it must allow orders to be placed, it must collect payment for the products sold, and it must ship the products to buyers. This online retailer’s Domain seems to be composed of these four primary Subdomains: Product Catalog, Orders, Invoicing, and Shipping. The upper part of Figure 2.1 shows the e-Commerce System.

Figure 2.1. A Domain with Subdomains and Bounded Contexts

This all seems quite straightforward, ...

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