Arc Application Architecture Guidance

Overview

Recommended reading:

• DDD Step-by-Step
• Domain Driven Design
• The Onion Architecture Part 1
• The Onion Architecture Part 2
• The Onion Architecture Part 3

Books:

• Eric Evans Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Jimmy Nilsson Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET
• InfoQ Domain Driven Design Quickly

Application Core

Core

Responsibilities:

• Entities [Evans DDD, 89] and Value objects [Evans DDD, 97], [Fowler PoEAA, 486]
• Domain Services [Evans DDD, 104]
• Interfaces of Application Services [Fowler PoEAA, 133], [GoF DP, 185]

Data Contracts

Responsibilities:

• Data Transfer Object (DTO) [Fowler PoEAA, 401]

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Wrapping 3rd party tools

Services

Responsibilities:

• Implementations of Application Services [Fowler PoEAA, 133], [GoF DP, 185]
• Implementations of Repositories [Evans DDD, 147], [Fowler PoEAA, 322]

Configuration

Responsibilities:

• NHibernate mappings
• Configuration of 3rd party tools

User Interface

Presentation

Responsibilities:

• Interfaces and implementations of Presenters [Martin APPP, 637]
• Interfaces of Views [Martin APPP, 637]

Web

Responsibilities:

• Implementations for views
• Content (images, css, javascript etc)

Tests

Unit

Integration

External Libraries

• Arc (Domain, Infrastructure)
• NHibernate, FluentNHibernate
• Ninject / StructureMap / Castle Windsor
• AutoMapper
• NHibernate Validator / FluentValidation.NET
• Castle.DynamicProxy2
• Log4Net