VO and Java EE 5

[jeff mutonho]

Hi

Can someone explain to me why VOs are not necessary any more when designing with JavaEE 5?

[Piotr Uryga]

Java EE 5 contains EJB 3 and JPA. With EJB /JPA new POJO Entities are available.
With such lightweight objects representing data in Java EE applications there is no need of cluttering application with Transfer Objects.

[Hong Anderson]

Value Object is not the same as Transfer Object (TO or DTO pattern).
Value Object means objects that don't have identity. For example, services are Value Objects.

Value Object is an important building block for software design.

However, when I talk about Value Objects, I refer to Domain-Driven Design.

[Piotr Uryga]

 

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:Value Object is not the same as Transfer Object (TO or DTO pattern).
Value Object means objects that don't have identity. For example, services are Value Objects.

Value Object is an important building block for software design.

However, when I talk about Value Objects, I refer to Domain-Driven Design.

Are You serious man ?
They changed the name of pattern from Value Object (Ed1 of Core J2EE Pattern) to Transfer Object (Ed2).

You can find bunch of topics here on Javaranch about the whole case, f.e.:

https://coderanch.com/t/154686/Architect-Certification-SCEA/Value-Object-VO-vs-Transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Transfer_Object

Question was regarding Java EE 5, so was my answer.

[Ronald Wouters]

I guess they should make an update to Figure 8.5 in the following text then, because it still mentions "ValueObject".

http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/TransferObject.html

[Piotr Uryga]

 

Ronald Wouters wrote:I guess they should make an update to Figure 8.5 in the following text then, because it still mentions "ValueObject".

http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/TransferObject.html

Indeed
Here You have more up to date class diagram of TO applicable to EJB 2.x systems:
http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/Patterns2ndEd/TransferObject.htm

[J J Wright]

Sweeping statements like "JPA kills DTOs" and "EE5 dependency injection kills Service Locator" are nonsense. Yes, there are many situations where EE5 makes them redundant but at the same time many cases remain where these patterns are still valid.

For example:

You might not want to expose your entities directly; perhaps because they're too fine grained.

You want to avoid the anti-pattern of making everything an EJB, so you need to perform lookups in non container-managed objects.

[Hong Anderson]

 

Piotr Uryga wrote:

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:Value Object is not the same as Transfer Object (TO or DTO pattern).
Value Object means objects that don't have identity. For example, services are Value Objects.

Value Object is an important building block for software design.

However, when I talk about Value Objects, I refer to Domain-Driven Design.

Are You serious man ?
They changed the name of pattern from Value Object (Ed1 of Core J2EE Pattern) to Transfer Object (Ed2).

You can find bunch of topics here on Javaranch about the whole case, f.e.:

https://coderanch.com/t/154686/Architect-Certification-SCEA/Value-Object-VO-vs-Transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Transfer_Object

Question was regarding Java EE 5, so was my answer.

I think you misunderstood Piotr . I didn't reply to you. I did reply to the topic creator.

I guess Sun have changed name "Value Object" to "Transfer Object", because it's not the appropriate name.

[jeff mutonho]

 

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:

Piotr Uryga wrote:

Kengkaj Sathianpantarit wrote:Value Object is not the same as Transfer Object (TO or DTO pattern).
Value Object means objects that don't have identity. For example, services are Value Objects.

Value Object is an important building block for software design.

However, when I talk about Value Objects, I refer to Domain-Driven Design.

Are You serious man ?
They changed the name of pattern from Value Object (Ed1 of Core J2EE Pattern) to Transfer Object (Ed2).

You can find bunch of topics here on Javaranch about the whole case, f.e.:

https://coderanch.com/t/154686/Architect-Certification-SCEA/Value-Object-VO-vs-Transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Transfer_Object

Question was regarding Java EE 5, so was my answer.

I think you misunderstood Piotr . I didn't reply to you. I did reply to the topic creator.

I guess Sun have changed name "Value Object" to "Transfer Object", because it's not the appropriate name.

The confusion started when Sun started using TO for VO , but some people still referred to TOs as VOs.Perhaps I should have been more correct and used
TO in my question

[Hong Anderson]

 

jeff mutonho wrote:
The confusion started when Sun started using TO for VO , but some people still referred to TOs as VOs.Perhaps I should have been more correct and used
TO in my question

I think so.

Anyway, just to clarify about what I said that services are value objects. Actually, Services are another pattern/building block, I should not say services are value objects, sorry about that.