Hexagonal: ports and adapters pattern

booster: Alistair Cockburn

Motivation, split the responsibility in different layers.

In this way we can have a low coupling between parts, and evolve the app in an easy way.

Features:

• Framework independence
• Testable
• UI independence
• BBDD independence
• foreign agents independence
• Resilence, failure tolerance
• change tolerance of the code
• Reusable code
• Maintainability
• adapters and ports

Port and adapters

• Port: definition of interface
• Adapters: specific implementation for the interface