Question

I would like to know what the pros and cons are for using an Anemic Domain Model (see link below).

Fowler Article

Answer 1

The pros:

• You can claim it’s a domain model and brag to your developer friends and put it on your resume.
• It’s easy to generate automagically from database tables.
• It maps to Data Transfer Objects surprisingly well.

The cons:

• Your domain logic exists somewhere else, probably in a class full of class(static) methods. Or your GUI code. Or in multiple places, all with conflicting logic.
• It’s an anti-pattern, so other developers will ask if you understand the concepts of object oriented design.