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Oliver Gierke, Spring Data Project Lead at Pivotal

Oliver Gierke

Biography: Oliver Gierke

Oliver Gierke is the lead of the Spring Data project at Pivotal, formerly known as SpringSource, and member of the JPA 2.1 expert group. He has been into developing enterprise applications and open source projects for over 8 years now. His working focus is centered around software architecture, Spring, REST and persistence technologies. He is regularly speaking at German and international conferences and the author of technology articles as well as the first book on Spring Data.

Twitter: @olivergierke

Presentation: DDD & REST - Domain Driven APIs for the Web

Track: Web APIs / Time: Friday 14:30 - 15:20 / Location: Hall 5

While Domain Driven Design is supposed to take care of complexity in the very core of software, REST is usually treated a plain remoting technology. In the talk we're going to explore some commonalities of the two when it comes to the design of both the domain and resources. We're going to discover how a good domain design is essential to build a great REST API in the first place and which means REST provides to make your APIs more domain driven.

From all of the building blocks of DDD, the talk identifies the ones most important when it comes to building a good REST API: we're going to look at aggregates as natural boundaries for representations, repositories as the backing foundation for collection resources and how hypermedia allows to make domain specific state transitions explicit.

Code samples in the talk will be in Java and feature a bunch of helpful libraries of the Spring Framework ecosystem.