Hi to everybody,
i'd like to know your opinion about a potential issue I'm facing. I'm developing some applications - a
large application - in which I have a classical Swing GUI (deployed via
Java Web Start) which communicates with a remote Application Server. To pass data between application layers, my team has developed an extension of classical Value Object, of which we augmented semantic by adding a number of annotations.
These annotations contain some info I'd like not to make public, for examples details on how a single attribute is bounded to a field on the Gui or on a specific column of a certain database table. I'd like to use obfuscators, but 'cause the objects are really the "data" traversing our apps, and these instances are used by remote EJBs, I think that obfuscate ValueObjects (whit consequent renaming of attributes) can't be really the way to achive this purpose.
So, I'd like to get your suggestions on this issue. By the way, I'm wondering if this may be
really a re-enginering problem:if all business logic resides on a remote and (unaccessible!) application Server, even with database schemas, tables, and views (without
actual data), I don't think that a complete retro-engineering may be done
on our products. What happens, for example, with Entity in
EJB 3.0 apps, when these are "exposed" via a AppClient ?
Thank you in advance.