Hi, Gurus, Background: I just started a Struts project with Hibernate. I have chosen to use the Data Access Object with (Abstract Factory) design pattern because my client uses Oracle and I use Postgresql database. I am working with other teams remotely and they decided to use DTO.
Problem: A few months ago, I recall a message thread on this list with a subject header of: 'DTOs are evil'. Since I am new to this, I am having problems understanding why. I thought that DTO are for data storage and data transfer between Business and Value Objects. Questions: I have the following questions: 1. Why I shouldn't choose it? 2. Should I be using the Apache Commons BeanUtils in my action? It has a method like BeanUtils.copyProperties(...). 3. If not BeanUtils, then what do you recommend? Thanks, Bob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
