Concrete examples on why the 'Anemic Domain Model' is considered an anti-pattern

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Simeon picture Simeon · Jun 9, 2011 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I apologize if this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on the topic in related questions.

After reading Martin Fowler's article on the 'Anemic Domain Model', I'm left wandering as to why is this considered an anti-pattern. Even does the majority of enterprise developers consider it an anti-pattern, since AFAIK probably 90% of the j2ee applications are designed in an 'anemic' way ?

Can someone recommend further reading on the topic (other than the 'Domain Driven Design' book), or even better, give a concrete examples on how this anti-pattern is affecting application design in a bad way.

Thanks,

Answer

irreputable picture irreputable · Jun 9, 2011

Martin Fowler brings this industry many words and less understanding.

Majority of applications today (web/db) do need many objects that expose their properties.

Any authority (self claimed) frowning upon such practice should lead by example, and show us a successful real world application that's full of embodiments of his marvelous principles.

Or else shut up. It is sickening that there so many hot airs in our industry. This is engineering, not a drama club.

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