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This project represents a common pattern:

• Hibernate model objects, all data but no behaviour
• injected "service" dependencies that are more like function libraries
• stateless helper classes that manipulate the data in the model using services

Why is this bad?

If we were following proper OO the data and the behaviours that act on that data would be together in a single class. Instead, what we have is a value object, and different "classes" that manipulate that data.

Where is this from?

This is based on real, production code I have seen - anonymised and simplified to make it easier to work with.

Where do I start?

• com.example.order.processing.OrderProcessor is an example client of the code in question. In practice, this might be a Controller in a web application
• com.example.order.processing.TradeOrder is a Hibernate model object representing a trade; i.e. buying or selling a specific asset at a certain price
• com.example.order.processing.Figures is a value object representing a price (per share) a number of shares and an amount (price * number of shares)
• com.example.order.processing.FiguresFactory is a helper object that takes a TradeOrder and creates a Figures from it

What do I have to do?

How could we better factor these four classes to make the system clearer and more maintainable.

What else is there?

• com.example.model.* contains a collection of dependent model classes, only shown as interfaces. The details of these are not significant
• com.example.service.* contains a collection of service-like dependencies, only shown as interfaces. The details of these are not significant