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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

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The power of immutability in a Rich Domain Model

By Allard, on April 6th, 2009

As many other developers, I’ve been used to the fat service layer and the anemic domain model of the transaction script pattern. In that programming model, immutability is pretty much as rare as a Dodo. However, I have been investigating the rich domain model pattern lately (as you can read in my previous post) and [...]

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Architecture, DDD, Java, Technology | 9 comments

Using the Memento pattern to solve thread safety issues

By Ben, on December 27th, 2008

Introduction
Author’s note: this is an article that I co-authoredwith a colleague, Robert van der Steen. It has also been
published in our company newsletter.
Many of the applications we write for our clients nowadays use the service paradigm: a dedicated and often reusable component within the application that is responsible for a particular task or process. Such [...]

December 27th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Architecture | 3 comments

The Life Cycle Pattern

By Ben, on August 9th, 2008

One of my current projects is responsible for delivering a library of functions that are used by several applications being built and maintained at our customer. One of those functions in particular is quite central to the operation of all the applications that use out library and is responsible for collecting, transforming and combining data [...]

August 9th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Architecture | One comment