Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Render Aggregate Instances from a Domain Payload Object

There is an approach that provides a possible improvement when DTOs are unnecessary. This one gathers multiple whole Aggregate instances for view rendition into a single Domain Payload Object [Vernon, DPO]. DPO has motivations similar to DTO but takes advantage of the single virtual machine application architecture. It is designed to contain references to whole Aggregate instances, not individual attributes. Clusters of Aggregate instances can be transferred between logical tiers or layers by a simple Payload container object. The Application Service (see “Application Services”) uses Repositories to retrieve the necessary Aggregate instances and then instantiates the DPO to hold references ...