Implementing Domain-Driven Design

ORM and Single Value Objects

Persisting a single Value Object instance to a database is usually very straightforward. Here my focus is on the use of Hibernate with the MySQL relational database. The basic idea is to store each of the attributes of the Value in separate columns of the row where its parent Entity is stored. Said another way, a single Value Object is denormalized into its parent Entity’s row. There are advantages to employing convention for column naming to clearly identify and standardize the way serialized objects are named. I present a persisted Value Object naming convention here.

When using Hibernate to persist a single instance of a Value Object, use the component mapping element. The component element is employed because ...