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Improving Application Design with a Rich Domain Model

In this presentation, you will learn how to improve your applications by implementing business logic using a rich domain model. Chris will refactor a procedural design into an object-oriented design and illustrate the benefits of using the object-oriented approach. You will learn how to identify procedural code smells and eliminate them by refactoring your code - something you can start doing the Monday morning after the conference.

Java is an object-oriented language and object-oriented design is considered by many to be a good way to tackle complexity. However, surprisingly many complex enterprise Java applications are written in a procedural style. The business tier consists of fat services and anemic domain models and consequently can be difficult to understand, maintain and test.

In this presentation, you will learn about how to improve your applications by implementing business logic using rich POJO domain model. We will compare and contrast a procedural design with an object-oriented design and describe the benefits of using an object-oriented approach.You will learn how to identify procedural code smells and eliminate them by refactoring your code - something you can start doing the Monday morning after the conference.


About Chris Richardson

Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the recently published book "POJOs in Action". He runs a consulting company that helps development teams become more productive and successful by adopting POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children. More About Chris »