Our applications are complicated enough without adding any more. Here's a way to think about your objects that allows you to dramatically simplify your object model, provided you're willing to turn ...

Value Objects are used whenever a set of fine-grained data has to be passed back and forth between remote objects to avoid the overhead of multiple network round trips. Typically Value Objects ...

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The result: A lot of if statements! And you have to type them all! Now imagine that the number of validations increases from 10 to 25 because 15 new use cases must be implemented in the next iteration ...

I'm a big fan of domain driven design. One of the key concepts of that approach are what are called value objects: objects that are considered identical because they have the same values in their ...