ello, You are quite right. In fact, this issue has been discussed in a book. Check out the preview of it from theServerSide: http://www.theserverside.com/resources/patterns_review.jsp
cheers romen -----Original Message----- From: Rustad, Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:02 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Course Grained Entity Beans...your thoughts.... I was reading the J2EE design patterns book and it suggested using a Course - grained approach at building your entity beans (dependent tables accessed via Data Access Objects). However, after inspecting the new 2.0 specs, and considering the inclusion of EJBLocalHome and EJBLocalObject, is it necessary to still follow this recommendation? I personally would rather not code DAOs, however, if there is a performance gain by doing so, I would. Thanks for you advice. Aaron.