I have recently been looking at some of the core J2EE design paterns that deal with composition and data access and have found some useful ideas here. Have a look at the Dirty Marker pattern:
http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/CompositeEntity.html I use a Facade or Manager class to handle calling different DAO's when a composite object contains objects that also need CRUD. -Stuart ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
