I'd recommend using DTO's. Whether you use Dozer or not is secondary.
The motivations for this approach are in this thread -
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/msg/f9290388bbf5a5f8. In
general, you want to keep your UI Model (i.e. DTO) separate from your Domain
Model (hibernate ent
Hello
On our current project we have a fairly large database model mapped
thru Hibernate JPA annotations: around 150 entities.
Those JPA entities have a lot of @ManyToOne, @OneToMany, @ManyToMany
inter relations.
On the server side Hibernate lazy loading is active and managed
correctly so that no