DDD and MVC: Difference between 'Model' and 'Entity'

Question

I\'m seriously confused about the concept of the \'Model\' in MVC. Most frameworks that exist today put the Model between the Controller and the database, and the Model alm

Answer 1

All answers are a heavy mashup of different things and simply wrong.

A model in DDD is much like a model in the real world: A simplification and abstraction of something. No less and no more. It has nothing to do with data nor objects or anything else. It's simply the concept of a domain part. And in also every complex domain there is always more than one model, e.g. Trading, Invoicing, Logistics.

An entity is not a "model with identity" but simply an object with identity.

A repository is not just a 1st level cache but a part of the domain too. It is giving an illusion of in-memory objects and responsible for fetching Aggregates (not entities!) from anywhere and saving them i.e. maintaining the life cycle of objects.