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Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java
Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java

Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java: An architect's guide to building maintainable and change-tolerant applications with Java and Quarkus

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  • Learn techniques to decouple business and technology code in an application
  • Apply hexagonal architecture principles to produce more organized, coherent, and maintainable software
  • Minimize technical debts and tackle complexities derived from multiple teams dealing with the same code base

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Hexagonal architecture enhances developers' productivity by decoupling business code from technology code, making the software more change-tolerant, and allowing it to evolve and incorporate new technologies without the need for significant refactoring. By adhering to hexagonal principles, you can structure your software in a way that reduces the effort required to understand and maintain the code. This book starts with an in-depth analysis of hexagonal architecture's building blocks, such as entities, use cases, ports, and adapters. You'll learn how to assemble business code in the Domain hexagon, create features by using ports and use cases in the Application hexagon, and make your software compatible with different technologies by employing adapters in the Framework hexagon. Moving on, you'll get your hands dirty developing a system based on a real-world scenario applying all the hexagonal architecture's building blocks. By creating a hexagonal system, you'll also understand how you can use Java modules to reinforce dependency inversion and ensure the isolation of each hexagon in the architecture. Finally, you'll get to grips with using Quarkus to turn your hexagonal application into a cloud-native system. By the end of this hexagonal architecture book, you'll be able to bring order and sanity to the development of complex and long-lasting applications.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software architects and Java developers who want to improve code maintainability and enhance productivity with an architecture that allows changes in technology without compromising business logic, which is precisely what hexagonal architecture does. Intermediate knowledge of the Java programming language and familiarity with Jakarta EE will help you to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Find out how to assemble business rules algorithms using the specification design pattern
  • Combine domain-driven design techniques with hexagonal principles to create powerful domain models
  • Employ adapters to make the system support different protocols such as REST, gRPC, and WebSocket
  • Create a module and package structure based on hexagonal principles
  • Use Java modules to enforce dependency inversion and ensure isolation between software components
  • Implement Quarkus DI to manage the life cycle of input and output ports

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Fernando Jan 10, 2022
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Great book for Java Developer's and Architects entering in a way of architecting software decoupling business from technological area using Hexagonal.This book contains enumerated step-by-step explanations accompanied with practical examples. Very well written in an easy to grasp manner.I particularly like the focus across Quarkus that I particullary not familiar with, that show us how to implement dependency injection using Quarkus DI approach for instance.
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Aleksandr Teterin Jan 10, 2022
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I read the book as I was really interested in finding Hexagonal Architecture's implementation. I know only a few books dedicated to the topic, and I am glad to read one more - especially one that uses Java, Quarkus as an implementation platform.If you are wondering how to build a medium or large application, that:is having the complex business domain, and alsogoing to have a long life in production, and alsoshould be adaptable to the future changes of requirementsThen eventually, you will find out that hexagonal architecture could be an option that might help you achieve the above goals.I am finding the book well balanced in terms of theory and practice. It looks more practical (and I like it), and in terms of theory, the author provided enough supporting references.Also, there are questions/answers for the self-check that help the readers understand if they are on the right track.The source code accompanies all chapters. If some of the author's ideas were new for me, then after the building and running the application from the source code, I addressed all my questions.Application testing. The book covers the unit, BDD, and integration testing of an application.I also want to mention some limitations/neutral comments. You need to keep in mind that provided implementation options might not work for you.To be more specific. In chapter 5 the implementation of the addNetworkToRouter use case contains the calls to Kafka and to a database. In real life, the Kafka call may fail for any reason (server is down, network issue) while the database is available. In that case, the valuable user input will be lost. Another comment is about using reactive implementation. Readers may conclude that the reactive approach is the default one as it has a better performance than the imperative approach. While it is true, but if your application is not affected by C10k problem (you are not building the Netflix) then probably you want to prefer the imperative approach. Why? I would refer the readers to Tomasz Nurkiewicz's "Reactive programming lessons learned" talk for a detailed explanation.In the end, I want to say that I enjoyed the journey about building Hexagonal Architecture from scratch. I intend to use the book as a reference in my future projects.
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j Feb 21, 2022
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This book provides a solid, concise argument as to why a practitioner in software development wants to use this. But, and this is the important piece: they provide the details, replete with examples about how to do this.In general, this book takes a java-centric approach (makes sense, given the name), while still being agnostic enough that one could borrow many, if not all, of the concepts and apply them to any other programming language. One of the pieces I would have loved to see is a more functional approach. OOP has strict limitations, newer practitioners might miss some nuance of OOP's many sharp edges. Chief among them, developers often mix state and behavior (even experienced developers). Succumbing to this problem is especially easy in a hexagonal architecture. This subtlety is why I would love to see a a chapter or two discussing how this plays out in a strictly functional Java context.That only other thing I would like to see in this book is more challenges. Developing architectures in an existing context is a series of trade-offs that academic knowledge is unable to truly articulate. Having challenges would help developers build the intuition and application of how and where to separate concerns and define boundaries. In many cases the boundaries are clear and obvious. But in just as many, they aren't. And choosing the boundary is much more subtle. While challenges and examples can only carry the reader so far, it helps expose them to the nuance and tradeoffs that architects and systems designers face every time they design a new system.Overall this was a good read and helpful. As a seasoned software engineer, there were some good tidbits in here that I was able to borrow, use , and apply.
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Mark Richards Feb 01, 2022
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I thought this book did a good job of describing the connection between an architectural style and how it impacts the structure and design of the corresponding code. The book is well-written, and is also very well organized in a clear and methodical approach. The book starts out with a good explanation of hexagonal architecture and the various parts of the architecture style, and then takes the reader through each of the main parts of hexagonal architecture structure (domain, application, framework) through implementation examples using Java. I thought the use of the network cataloging system example was a fresh relief from other more "traditional" examples, and was detailed and interesting enough to keep my attention throughout the book.Writing an architectural implementation book is challenging due to the (literally) hundreds of technical implementation possibilities that exist. In this case the author chose to use Java combined with Maven, Cucumber, curl, Postman, Newman, Kafka, JPMS, Quarkus, JPA, Hibernate, RESTEasy Reactive, OpenAPI, Swagger, Docker, and Minikube. While that's a lot of frameworks and tools to install and learn, what you end up with at the end of a book is a complete end-to-end executable example implemented using hexagonal architecture. Don't worry through - the author did a good job of walking through the configuration for each of these tools and frameworks for those not familiar with them, and allowed the reader to gain some exposure to these common artifacts. That said, I would have preferred to work with a simpler tech stack so that the focus was more on the architecture style rather than the myriad of tools and frameworks needed to develop and run the sample application. That said, I'm not really sure such a thing exists today given the complex tech stacks we all have to deal with to develop the simplest of applications.Having read through the whole book, I have two main observations. The first is that the book seemed more about programming techniques for creating an end-to-end complete application in the Java platform rather than focusing on the specific nuances associated with the hexagonal architecture style. While the author did a good job of tying back the separation of concerns (and corresponding code) between domain objects, ports, and adapters, I felt at times I got way too caught up in the weeds of technology and implementation details. Rather, I would have enjoyed a comparison of what certain parts would look like if they were implemented in, say, a traditional n-tiered layered architecture, and how the code structure would vary.My second observation is that I felt the author could have spent more time talking about the disadvantages and tradeoffs associated with the hexagonal architecture style. In the summary the author did mention that hexagonal architecture isn't for everyone, but I would have loved a deeper dive into what some of those tradeoffs and disadvantages are. Overall, I would say a worthwhile read for those in the Java platform.
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bcd Apr 12, 2023
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Surprised to see "use cases" being used as interfaces and "ports" as implementations of use cases. This is backwards from how the rest of the industry would use these terms. It led to some confusion.I didn't care for the main example of networks, routers and switches. A library or something that most people have more familiarity with would reduce the burden of understanding the business model, and allow the reader to focus on how a hexagonal solution would solve the problem
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