Inheritance vs enum properties in the domain model

Question

I had a discussion at work regarding \"Inheritance in domain model is complicating developers life\". I\'m an OO programmer so I started to look for arguments that having in

Answer 1

Both solutions are right. You should look which techniques applies better to you problem.

If your program uses few different objects, and doesn't add new classes, its better to stay with enumerations.

But if you program uses a lot of different objects (different classes), and may add new classes, in the future, better try the inheritance way.