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Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

This chapter is dedicated to a modern software development technique called domain-driven design (DDD), which was first proposed by Eric Evans. While DDD has existed for more than 15 years, it has achieved great success in the last few years because of its ability to cope with two important problems.

The main problem is modeling complex systems that involve several domains of knowledge. No single expert has in-depth knowledge of the whole domain; this knowledge is instead split among several people. Moreover, each expert speaks a language that is specific to their domain of expertise, so for effective communication between the experts and the development team objects, interfaces and ...

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