EDA Lessons Learned - EDA and Object Oriented Design

See EDA Lessons Learned for the list

Event producers and event sinks are very often services written in an Object Oriented language. All the same OO rules apply. OO Design Patterns are still applicable.

This is a pretty minor point, but I have seen a lot of people throw this stuff out the window with EDA/SOA.

In my opinion, services (i.e., event producers & sinks) should have good separation of:

• service handler (should have minimal code - just delegates to message mapping and business logic)
• message mapping (e.g., O/X)
• business logic
• domain model
• data access layer

An aside I'll add is that the Spring Framework also works just fine for Java based services. I only mention it because I have found that its usage tends to have a positive affect on the OO design of services.