Ranganathan Kaliyur Mannar wrote:2. For Entity objects, from EJB 3 (JPA) onwards, is just a POJO with annotations. Yon can use the same class to be passed around and used in view. You don't need to use value objects to mirror entities.
You are right.
I was thinking in another situation(apart from confirmatory screens) where an abbreviated version of Entity could be useful typically when you don't want to expose some of the field values.
Any takes for the first question ?