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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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ORM and Many Values Serialized into a Single Column

There are unique challenges associated with mapping a collection of many Value Objects into a relational database using an ORM. To be clear, by collection I mean a List or Set that is held by an Entity and contains zero, one, or more Value instances. The challenges are not insurmountable, but the object-relational impedance mismatch becomes glaringly obvious here.

One option available with Hibernate object-relational mapping is to serialize the entire collection of objects into a textual representation and persist the representation into a single column. This approach has some drawbacks. However, in some cases the drawbacks are unobtrusive and may be summarily ignored in favor of leveraging ...

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