Applying domain driven design in a modular fashion has implications on how your data is structured and retrieved. A modular domain consists out of multiple loosely coupled sub-domains, each having their own modular schema in the database. How can we migrate and evolve the database schema’s separately with each new sub-domain version? And how do we match this with reporting and cross-domain use cases, where aggregation of data from multiple sub-domains is essential? A case study concerning an OSGi-based business platform for automotive services has driven us to solve these challenges without sacrificing the hard-worked-on modularity and loose coupling. In this presentation you will learn how we used Modular Domain Driven Design with OSGi. 'Liquibase' is elevated to become a first class citizen in OSGi by extending multiple sub-domains with automatic database migration capabilities. On the other hand, 'Elasticsearch' is integrated in OSGi to become a separate search module coordinating cross-domain use cases. This unique combination enabled us to satisfy two important customer requirements. Functionally, the software should not be limited by module boundaries to answer business questions. Non-functionally, a future-proof platform is required in which the impact of change is contained and encapsulated in loosely coupled modules. Bios: Tom De Wolf Tom is currently technical lead of a Java software factory delivering multiple projects for multiple clients. His background skills include software architecture, designing & implementing enterprise systems using the Java eco-system. He has specialised in building OSGi based platforms using Agile methodologies and at the same time shaping a technological base platform for future ACA projects. His background as a PhD. in Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven enabled Tom to travel the world and present at multiple international conferences. Stijn van Den Ende Stijn is CTO at ACA IT-Solutions. His background skills include software architecture, designing & implementing enterprise class systems based on XML & WebServices, Enterprise Application Integration and B2B integration. He also has a strong background in agile methods. Instructing Java, Patterns, Architecture & XML courses is another way of his involvement with the JEE technology. He advises customers with regards to their enterprise system blueprints, and how to streamline their development process while defining and maintaining the technical roadmap for ACA IT-Solutions.

1. MODULARITY AND DOMAIN
DRIVEN DESIGN
a killer combination?
Tom De Wolf
Architect
tom.dewolf@aca-it.be
@tomdw
Stijn Van den Enden
CTO
stijn.vandenenden@aca-it.be
@stieno
www.aca-it.be

2. initial development maintenance phase
Software Design Customer Satisfaction
Separation of Concerns
Low coupling High Cohesion
B AB
A
• Change A impacts all
modules = costly
• Change B requires split
of module = costly
• Change A only impacts
other module if api change
• Change B limited to
module
Encapsulate Source of Change
Predictable Cost of Change
Constant change Business Driven
Aim for 1-on-1 mapping from business changes
onto software constructs
Source of Change = Business
Functional Modularisation

3. Vehicle
Option
Make
Warranty
Model
Transport
Location
Domain Driven Design
Without modularity
BusinessPartner
Address
Contact
consumer supplier
transports
owner
from to

4. Vehicle
Option
Make
Warranty
Owner
Model
Transported Item
Transport
Transport Supplier
Transport Consumer
Vehicle Context Transport Context
Domain Driven Design
Modularity with Bounded Contexts BusinessPartner
AddressContact
Business Partner Context
Location
from to

5. transport
vehicle
MODULAR DATABASE SCHEMA
• cross domain database structures not allowed
• queries cannot cross domain boundaries
NO foreign key
business partner
UUID MAKE MODEL OWNER_ID
djdfjfdkjdk221 Ford C-Max BE1234567
TRANSPORTED_ITEM_ID FROM CONSUMER_ID
djdfjfdkjdk221 454 BE1234567
LOCATION_ID ADDRESS
454 Sunstreet 23
foreign key
VAT_NUMBER NAME
BE1234567 Company A

6. BENEFITS …
• Domain modules can migrate independently
to next version!
• Database schema is internal to the domain
bundle, i.e. NOT part of the API!
• Persistence and/or database technology can
differ between modules in one system!

7. Mmodular database migration
cross domain transactions
Tx
Scross domain search and reporting
C
H
A
L
L
E
N
G
E
S

8. Mmodular database migration

9. M
Dev Machine 1
MIGRATION CHALLENGE
Dev Machine 2
Continuous
Integration
Test
environment
Acceptance
environment
Production
environment
Version
1.0.0
Version
1.0.1
Version
1.0.2
Version
?
Version
?
Version
?
environment x
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3
Version
1.0.0
Version
3.0.0
Version
2.0.2
Manually track which scripts have run
on which environment for which module ?

10. M
LIQUIBASE
DATABASECHANGELOG table to track executed changesets for each environment
In versioned source code
XML based DSL for changeSets
www.liquibase.org

11. M
MODULAR LIQUIBASE
transportvehicle business partner
deployment 1
deployment 2
deployment 3
Migrate modules separately Migrate @deploy of module
migrate to initial version migrate to initial version migrate to initial version
no db changes, no migration migrate to version 2 migrate to version 2
migrate to version 3

12. M
THE EXTENDER PATTERN
bundle A
bundle B
bundle C
bundle D
extender bundle
Extension Pattern ?!
no match
/OSGI-INF/liquibase/db.changelog-master.xml
osgi-liquibase-extender
framework dependency
Liquibase
change sets domain A
change sets domain B
change sets domain C
• Only extender depends on
Liquibase framework
• Update of single bundle
triggers Liquibase update
• New Liquibase process
for each matching bundle

13. Tcross domain transactionsx

14. JTA OR NOT?
• No persistence layer — direct jdbc/sql access — 1 datasource
• Multiple datasources
• Different types of persistence layers (JPA, NoSQL, …)
• JPA persistence layer in each domain bundle
• instead of one big persistence unit
• even on 1 datasource
T
1 transaction spanning multiple modular domains
JTA not needed
JTA required
x

15. MODULAR PERSISTENCE
T osgi-datasource
XA enabled
vehicle-domaintransport-domain
javax.transaction.TransactionManager
transaction provider
e.g. atomikos
javax.sql.DataSource
persistence
context
persistence
context
commit
x

16. Scross domain search

17. Scross domain search
SEARCH
the tale of the evil joins

18. NO
cross
module
search

19. A. Search encapsulated in a separate module leveraging
the functionality of other domain modules
search-
module
domainA
domainB
x
x
Repository
Repository
Stop
• requires specific implementation for every search
• complexity increases with number of modules
• inability to leverage power of the datastore
SearchAPI

20. domainA
B. Search is using a separate query model
search-
module
domainB
SearchAPI
EventProvider
Update
Events
Update

22. $ curl -XPUT ‘localhost:9200/vehicle/external/1’ -d ‘{
“make”: “BMW”,
“VIN”: “30203232012102”
}’
index document_type
id
Index a document

23. $ curl -XPOST ‘localhost:9200/vehicle/external/1/
_update’ -d ‘{
“doc”: {“make”: “Alpina”}
}’
Update a document
index document_type
id

24. $ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/vehicle/_search?pretty -d
‘{"query":{"match":{"make":"BMW"}}}'
index
Querying an index

25. $ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/vehicle/_search?pretty -d
‘{"query":{"match":{"mark":"BMW"}}}'
{
"took" : 3,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 2,
"max_score" : 0.30685282,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "vehicle",
"_type" : "external",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : 0.30685282, "_source" : {"make": "BMW", "VIN": "30203232012102"}
}, {
"_index" : "vehicle",
"_type" : "external",
"_id" : "2",
"_score" : 0.30685282, "_source" : {"makes": "BMW", "VIN": "30203232012112"}
} ]}}
!
Querying an index

26. • Distributed (shards/replicas)
• Advanced Quering (lucene/geo/
aggregation)
• Facets (terms/ranges/histogram)
• API (HTTP/Java/JavaTesting)
• …
{

27. 1Populate the index

28. 1Populate the index
package be.vabfs.search.api;
!
public interface SearchIndexService {
void update(Object entityToUpdate);
void delete(Object entityToRemove);
!
void populate();
!
void clear();
!
}
search
SearchIndexService
domainB
Entity
EntityListener
@PrePersist
@PostUpdate
@PostRemove

29. 1Populate the index
search
SearchIndexService
update(entity)
Synchronise onTransaction
Track updated entities
A
Map entities to searchData
B
Bulk update search index
C

30. 1Populate the index
Map entities to searchData
B
package be.vabfs.search.api.data;
!
import java.util.List;
!
public interface SearchDataProvider {
!
Class<? extends Object> getEntityClass();
List<SearchData> index(Object entity);
!
}
domainB
Entity
SearchData

31. 1Populate the index
Map entities to searchData
B
SearchDataProvider
domainB
Entity
SearchData

32. 1Populate the index
A
search
SearchIndexService
update(entity)
Synchronise onTransaction
Track updated entities
Bulk update search index
C
Map entities to searchData
B SearchDataProvider
domainB
A

33. 2Enhancing Search

34. 2Enhancing Search

35. 2Enhancing Search
search
SearchService
package be.vabfs.search.api;
!
import …
!
public interface SearchService {
…
!
SearchResults query(String query, int start, int rows,
String sort, String sortOrder,
String documentType);
List<String> options(String field,
String... documentTypes);
List<SearchCriterion> availableCriteria(
String... criteriaCategories);
}

36. 2Enhancing Search
package be.vabfs.search.api.criteria;
!
import java.util.List;
!
public interface SearchCriteriaProvider {
String getProviderCategory();
List<SearchCriterion> getAvailableCriteria();
}
package be.vabfs.search.api.criteria;
!
public interface SearchCriterion {
!
String getName();
String getKey();
String getUnitName();
SearchCriterionType getType();
SearchCriterionQueryType getQueryType();
String getDocumentType();
!
}
"vehicle.mileage"
"mileage"
SearchCriterionType.NUMBER
SearchCriterionQueryType.RANGE_NUMBER
"SERVICE_ITEM"
"km"

37. 2Enhancing Search
search
SearchService
domainB
SearchCriteriaProvider
domainB

38. LESSONS LEARNED
@deployment time migration = RISK
• have CI build continuously migrate current production
data
Refactor wrong modularisation requires unwanted migration
dependencies
• reset/flatten migration change sets to restore
modularisation
Migration
Cross domain search and reporting
Effort to integrate search is limited
• due to dynamic osgi service model
Advanced search functionality is possible

39. WHAT IS NEXT?
Multiple module versions active? Multiple schema versions
active?
• e.g. feature try-out to limited customer base
Downgrade to older module version?
• Previous schema with new data?
Hot deploy while users are firing requests?
• Migration still busy = failure
Migration
Cross domain search and reporting
Domain Specific Query Language
!
Exploiting elastic search capabilities beyond search, e.g.
reporting

40. M
Modular migration
Liquibase extender @ DeployT
Cross domain transactions
Distributed JTA transactionsx S
Cross domain search
Elasticsearch view
Functionally
not limited by domain module boundaries to answer business questions
Non-functionally
future-proof platform with impact of change contained in loosely coupled domain modules

41. Tom De Wolf
Architect
tom.dewolf@aca-it.be
@tomdw
Stijn Van den Enden
CTO
stijn.vandenenden@aca-it.be
@stieno
www.aca-it.be