I don't think anything wrong w/ DTO.
You have your DAO, your model... in my case I use collections as DTO,
but beanutils is fine.
.V
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Hi, Gurus,
Background: I just started a Struts project with Hibernate. I have chosen to
use the Data Access Object with (Abstract Factory) design pattern because my
client uses Oracle and I use Postgresql database. I am working with other
teams remotely and they decided to use DTO.
Problem: A few months ago, I recall a message thread on this list with a subject header of: 'DTOs are evil'. Since I am new to this, I am having problems understanding why. I thought that DTO are for data storage and data transfer between Business and Value Objects.
Questions: I have the following questions:
1. Why I shouldn't choose it?
2. Should I be using the Apache Commons BeanUtils in my action? It has a
method like BeanUtils.copyProperties(...).
3. If not BeanUtils, then what do you recommend?
Thanks,
Bob
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