Domain Driven Design and the role of the factory class

Question

I\'am unclear as to what the roles and responsibility of the factory class is. I know enough that the factory class should be resposible for the creation of domain objects (agg

Answer 1

Probably at my own peril, I tend not to emphasize design patterns unless i'm really stuck. I just build the system as I think of it and refactor until it makes some sense the following day.

I use a factory when:

• Some layer needs to create an object with some regularity. and
• Only that layer knows when to create it, or with what customisations and
• Only some other layer knows exactly what to create.