What is Domain Driven Design?

domain-driven-design
Calanus picture Calanus · Mar 16, 2011 · Viewed 100.6k times · Source

Can somebody please explain (in succinct terms) what exactly is domain driven design? I see the term quite a lot but really don't understand what it is or what it looks like. How does it differ from non-domain driven design?

Also, can somebody explain what a Domain Object is? How does domain differ from normal objects?

Answer

Mikael Östberg picture Mikael Östberg · Mar 16, 2011

EDIT:

As this seem to be a top result on Google and my answer below is not, please refer to this much better answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1222488/1240557

OLD ANSWER (not so complete :))

In order to create good software, you have to know what that software is all about. You cannot create a banking software system unless you have a good understanding of what banking is all about, one must understand the domain of banking.

From: Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.

This book does a pretty good job of describing DDD.

Register to download a summary of the book, or download the summary directly.

Related questions

What is the difference between DAO and Repository patterns?

What is the difference between Data Access Objects (DAO) and Repository patterns? I am developing an application using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Hibernate ORM as infrastructure, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) as design techniques.

Read More
Where do I find some good examples for DDD?

I'm learning about Domain Driven Design, however there are some practical issues that are confusing to me that I think seeing some good samples might clear up. Does anyone know of some good working code samples that do a good …

Read More
Domain Driven Design: Domain Service, Application Service

Can someone explain the difference between domain and application services by providing some examples? And, if a service is a domain service, would I put the actual implementation of this service within the domain assembly and if so, would I …

Read More