Ports and adapters / hexagonal architecture - clarification of terms and implementation
问题 After reading different sources about the Ports & Adapters architecture including Alistair Cockburn's original article I am still not sure about the definite meaning of the terms "port" and "adapter" - especially when it comes to mapping these concepts to implementation artifacts. Several sources (e. g. this post) imply that the ports in this architecture pattern are artifacts at the very outside, followed by the adapters in the intermediate layer that translate between the ports and the