Domain Driven Design App Structure part 2

In my previous post, I gave an overview of what an implementation of a Domain Driven Design Application might look like.

I will be running a C# project in parallel with my Practical Domain Driven Design Articles. The plan is to eventually provide a full project template that can be used either as a DDD reference project or as a starting point for a new application. You can find the SimpleDDD project on GitHub.

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Kicking off SimpleDDD

If you have not read my previous post go do that first as this will give you some context.

Opening the project you will find an application folder with 4 projects inside. I have named these projects a bit different than in my previous post. Exact names for these layers are not important, they should just be named clearly.

SimpleDDD.Domain

• This is our Domain/Model layer
• It can also be called Core if you like
• It depends on no other projects in our solution

SimpleDDD.Data

• This is our Persistence Layer
• This layer will probably get renamed later to indicate the technology used. For example SimpleDDD.Data.EntityFramework
• It depends on SimpleDDD.Domain

SimpleDDD.Integration

• Our integration layer (duh)
• Depends on SimpleDDD.Domain

SimpleDDD.Api

• This is our Application layer
• I have gone back and forth a few times on what this should be called. It is fine to call it Application or App or even AppBoundary. If you have a really big system it can even be named after your Bounded Context. I find that Api provides a nice naming convention. I prefer something like UserApi over UserApplicationService.
• It depends on all three other projects
• It is the project that will get used by consumers

You will see that I have not added any consuming projects like a console app. We will do so later on when we talk about boundaries, DI and object lifetimes.

I have also cleared out all unused references added by visual studio. This might seem a bit redundant but we want to maintain a clean, fast compiling solution, thus we will stick to good principles from the start.

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