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Mastering Akka
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Mastering Akka

by Christian Baxter
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
11h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Curing Anemic Models with Domain-Driven Design

Now that we've had a refresher on the actor model, and how Akka leverages it as a concurrency mechanism, we can start with the first of our big refactors. In the Assessing the application's domain model section, in Chapter 1, Building a Better Reactive App, one of the issues I pointed out with the original bookstore app was that its code model was not a strong representation of the business model. I even went so far as to call the model anemic, which implies that it is a weak representation of the behaviors that are inherent in the business model. So, what can we do to fix this?

The domain-driven design (DDD) is a concept that can be applied to domain modeling to transform the business domain ...

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ISBN: 9781786465023