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Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java

You're reading from   Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java An architect's guide to building maintainable and change-tolerant applications with Java and Quarkus

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816489
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Davi Vieira Davi Vieira
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Architecture Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Why Hexagonal Architecture? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Wrapping Business Rules inside Domain Hexagon 4. Chapter 3: Handling Behavior with Ports and Use Cases 5. Chapter 4: Creating Adapters to Interact with the Outside World 6. Chapter 5: Exploring the Nature of Driving and Driven Operations 7. Section 2: Using Hexagons to Create a Solid Foundation
8. Chapter 6: Building the Domain Hexagon 9. Chapter 7: Building the Application Hexagon 10. Chapter 8: Building the Framework Hexagon 11. Chapter 9: Applying Dependency Inversion with Java Modules 12. Section 3: Becoming Cloud-Native
13. Chapter 10: Adding Quarkus to a Modularized Hexagonal Application 14. Chapter 11: Leveraging CDI Beans to Manage Ports and Use Cases 15. Chapter 12: Using RESTEasy Reactive to Implement Input Adapters 16. Chapter 13: Persisting Data with Output Adapters and Hibernate Reactive 17. Chapter 14: Setting Up Dockerfile and Kubernetes Objects for Cloud Deployment 18. Chapter 15: Good Design Practices for Your Hexagonal Application 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

On top of the Domain hexagon, we built the Application hexagon with use cases and ports. For use cases, we heavily relied on the behavior-driven development tool called Cucumber. With Cucumber, we could express the use cases supported by the system not only in code terms but also in written words.

We started by creating Cucumber feature files containing the use case written descriptions and then used them as a reference to create use case interfaces. These interfaces were then implemented by input ports that provided a concrete way to achieve use case goals. Finally, we built use case tests, based again on the written description provided by Cucumber.

By implementing and testing the Application hexagon in this way, we leveraged the special capabilities of Cucumber to express the system's behavior in a declarative and straightforward form, and we used these same capabilities to implement and test the entire Application hexagon.

On top of the Application hexagon...

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