Dozer is an open source (Apache 2 license) “Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data from one object to another.” As this description from its main web page states, it is used to map ...

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If you've been creating Data Transfer Objects that integrate several objects into one, then you've created what domain-driven design (DDD) calls an aggregate. But there are some rules you need to ...

JSON has arguably become the new lingua franca of the Internet; that is, JSON has become preferable for browser to server communication — over that of XML, which, as it happens, is quite verbose. JSON ...

One of the primary objectives of the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework (EF) teams was to avoid cluttering domain object models with original-value and modified-value properties for value-based ...

Developing a persistent domain model for an enterprise application is challenging. The reason we implement the business logic with a domain model is because the problem domain is complex. Therefore, ...