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title	Hexagonal Architecture
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Also known as

• Ports and Adapters
• Clean Architecture
• Onion Architecture

Intent

Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases.

Applicability

Use Hexagonal Architecture pattern when

• When the application needs to be independent of any frameworks
• When it is important that the application highly maintainable and fully testable

Tutorials

• Build Maintainable Systems With Hexagonal Architecture

Presentations

• Hexagonal Architecture

Real world examples

• Apache Isis builds generic UI and REST API directly from the underlying domain objects

Credits

• Alistair Cockburn - Hexagonal Architecture