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Category: Model-Driven Architecture

My Case for DTO's

Sebastien January 6, 2011 Export, Flex, Geek Culture, Groovy/Grails, Model-Driven Architecture, Rich Internet Applications, Tech Stuff 16 Comments

In many of my posts about Grails and Flex integration, I take for granted that I use Data Transfer Objects to transfer data between my Grails backend and my Flex frontend. Put simply, Data Transfer Object are pure data containing classes different from the domain entity classes used to store data in the backend. I take it for granted because I’m deeply convinced that it’s the best way to do things and so far, experience has never proved me wrong. But I often get this question in comments or by mail (this is for you Martijn): why bother create an entirely separate class structure and copy data from entities to DTO’s and back instead of just using entities?

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Text, Expressivity and Culture-Oriented Programming

Sebastien September 30, 2009 Export, Geek Culture, Language Oriented Programming, Model-Driven Architecture 1 Comment

Following up on my reflexion about what could software development look like a few years or decades from now, there is this big problem that has been bugging me for years now and that I have never found the time to really tackle: expressivity. In the same way as files appear to me as the

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AndroMDA, an Open Source MDA toolkit

Sebastien December 12, 2007 Export, Javapolis, Model-Driven Architecture 2 Comments

I gave a quickie at Javapolis today about AndroMDA. It was a first for me, and boy it was hard! My goal with this presentation was to act as a counterbalance to last year’s scripting language hype, to show that yes, you CAN be productive with traditional Java frameworks. It’s just a matter of tools

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