I think the "anemic objects[domain model]" is a red herring in this case. It would be much cleaner to create separate serialized and deserializers that convert

I think the "anemic objects[domain model]" is a red herring in this case. It would be much cleaner to create separate serialized and deserializers that convert your actual domain models to JSON and back. By the time you are doing something as shown in his example like building a book inventory it should be all proper objects and no primitives dictated by what should be the serialization layer. Edit: Fixing phone auto correct typo - "property objects" -> "proper objects"