Rich vs. Anemic Domain Model

Our architecture style does not address the problem of how our domain model is to be implemented. This is a blessing because we can do what seems right in our context and a curse because we don’t have any guidelines to help us.

A frequent discussion is whether to implement a rich domain model following the DDDDomain-driven design philosophy or an “anemic” domain model. I’m not going to favor one of the two, but let’s discuss how each of these fits into our architecture.