Robert, The 'traditional' way in which DAO's and gateways are implemented are that a DAO works with an individual bean and manages its persistence. A gateway manages retrieving sets of data, usually returned as a query.
>From what it should like you are doing, you are asking the gateway for a set of data, and then you want to message that data prior to returning it to the client. I would move the processing into a service object, which would contain an instance of your Gateway. Your method would proxy calls to the gateway, and then process the returned results. HTH Rich Kroll ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
