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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.
Class diagram
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
Real world examples
- Apache Isis builds generic UI and REST API directly from the underlying domain objects