On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:42:40 -0800, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sun's definition of DAO is very broad. > > But it's also a perfectly legit one
Oh, sure... that's part of the problem with all this stuff... there's no black and white definitions. > A gateway is > just as much a DAO as what we term a DAO, since it's sole purpose is > to interact with a persistant store in a way that abstracts the actual > store from calling code (i.e. an object for data access). Yes, "Data Access Object" can be a very broad term - the stricter interpretation only makes sense when talking about gateways and so on, as something to contrast a gateway with. Your EJB parallel is an extremely good one - thank you! -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme Got Gmail? -- I have 1 invite "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
