Conceptual Whole
A Value Object may possess just one, a few, or a number of individual attributes, each of which is related to the others. Each attribute contributes an important part to a whole that collectively the attributes describe. Taken apart from the others, each of the attributes fails to provide a cohesive meaning. Only together do all the attributes form the complete intended measure or description. This is different from merely grouping a set of attributes together in an object. The grouping itself accomplishes little if the whole fails to adequately describe another thing in the model.
As Ward Cunningham illustrates in his Whole Value pattern3 [Cunningham, Whole Value aka Value Object], the Value {50,000,000 dollars} has two attributes: ...
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