That last post was difficult to read, so here it is again with the line breaks
fixed:
"Dependent objects are objects that only have meaning within the context of
another business object. They typically represent fairly fine-grained business
con-cepts, like an address, phone number, or order item. For example, an
address has little meaning when it is not associated with a business object
like Person or Organization. It depends on the context of the business object
to give it mean-ing. Such an object can be thought of as a wrapper for related
data. The fields that make up an address (street, city, state, and zip) should
be packaged together in a single object called Address. In turn, the Address
object is usually an attribute or property of another business object; in EJB,
we would typically see an Address or some other dependent object as a property
of an entity bean."
-- Richard
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