You will be needing DTOs if in entities there are any one to many relationships.Or if you have any lazy load defined for any fields.Since GWT can't serialize those objects, it will throw unable serialize exception when you try to pass the entities from server to client. -Ahmed
On May 1, 3:34 am, Celinio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I need some clarification regarding the use of JPA entities within a GWT > application. > I have always read that you need to create a DTO for each entity that you > develop in a GWT application because of some serialization problem. > > But if you look at this skeleton for a GWT-JPA application, you will notice > that there are no DTOs !http://code.google.com/p/gwt-hardwarestore/ > > So i am not sure what's really needed. > Are DTOs really needed ? > My GWT application uses the MVP Places and Activities pattern. > > Thanks for helping. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
