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Domain-Driven Design and Domain Specific Languages

Presented by Eric Evans on Apr 09, 2008 01:34 AM

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Architecture
Topics
Domain Specific Languages
Tags
Domain Driven Design ,
Languages ,
OOP ,
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Summary
In DDD, the "ubiquitous language" is central, but it's richness and fluency is hard to render in the object-oriented medium. Domain-specific languages hold out the prospect of to express models and application logic in far better suited language. In this presentation, Eric Evans talks about how DDD and DSLs works together in complex business applications.

Bio
Eric Evans is a specialist in domain modeling and design in large business systems. Since the early 1990s, he has worked on many projects developing large business systems with objects and has been deeply involved in applying Agile processes on real projects. Eric is the author of "Domain-Driven Design" (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and he leads the consulting group Domain Language, Inc.

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.
Boring by Srikanth Shreenivas Posted Apr 11, 2008 1:46 PM
Re: Boring by John Brinnand Posted Apr 11, 2008 4:43 PM
BORING by Derek Nieto Posted Apr 12, 2008 11:04 AM
Fascinating by Al Tenhundfeld Posted Apr 16, 2008 11:23 AM
Re: Fascinating by Julian Browne Posted Apr 18, 2008 5:36 AM
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    Boring

    Apr 11, 2008 1:46 PM by Srikanth Shreenivas

    Eric Evans does not seem like great presenter, like his previous presentation on DDD, this too can put you to sleep.

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    Re: Boring

    Apr 11, 2008 4:43 PM by John Brinnand

    But if you stay awake - he is saying something very important.

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    BORING

    Apr 12, 2008 11:04 AM by Derek Nieto

    Eric is not a presenter, he is a good thinker about software development. His ideas are very exciting and I enjoy listen to them.

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    Fascinating

    Apr 16, 2008 11:23 AM by Al Tenhundfeld

    I completely disagree with comments about Evans being a mediocre presenter.

    I thought this was a great discussion of the current state of DSLs within the context of DDD. All I want from a presentation is digestible interesting content, and Evans does this very well.

    Yes, if you have no interest in these topics, Evans's style is not charismatic enough to compel your attention, but if you actually care about these ideas, he's a wonderfully thoughtful speaker.

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    Re: Fascinating

    Apr 18, 2008 5:36 AM by Julian Browne

    I have to say I agree with Al on this one. I recently read Evans' book so was keen to watch this to the end.

    I would have liked some discussion on language features and their support for DSLs (closures, type looseness, mixins, etc) and the risks that using these features might create in furthering abstractive qualities - I wonder if what he's saying is effectively what Paul Graham said, but from a different angle - i.e. we should all be busy learning Lisp...

    That aside, except for some strange camera issues with contrast, I enjoyed this.

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