RE: DAO design pattern

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lim,

In a nutshell, combined with the DAO pattern, they keep your data access
logic outside of your web logic. 

This means that you can make changes to how you access you data without
constantly modifying your presentation and control logic

In my own humble experience you can get away without this for simple
projects, but once your projects gets complex, these will really help you
organise and simplify your data access logic

cheers
Colin.W

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lim Hock-Chai [mailto:Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 04 January 2005 16:20
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: RE: DAO design pattern


Please note that I'm a beginner java programmer.  So, here I go.

I'm assuming that JT400SomeObjectDAO needs to implement SomeObjectDAO.  Is
that correct?

Still not sure what SomeObjectDAOFactory for yet.  


Here is a stupid beginner question:
Why do I need SomeObjectDAO interface if JT400SomeObjectDAO is probably the
only class that will implement SomeObjectDAO? 

Can you or Collin give me a short info on how Ibatis or Hibernate help
development cycle? 

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Subject: Re: DAO design pattern


Lim

Create an interface which defines the data related operations 
independantly of any particular representation/access method (i.e., 
file/JDBC, etc)

public interface SomeObjectDAO {

        public void create(SomeObject object)
                throws DAOException;

        public void delete(Integer objectID)
                throws DAOException;

        public SomeObject findByID(Integer objectID)
                throws DAOException;

        public List findByKeyword(String keyword)
                throws DAOException;
}

Then write an implementation of this interface using the JT/400 API:

public class JT400SomeObjectDAO {

        public SomeObject findByID(Integer objectID) {
 
                AS400File file = ....

                SomeObject someObject = new someObject();

                someObject.setFoo(file.readInteger());
 
                return someObject;
        }

        // ...
}

And finally write a factory to create instances of SomeObjectDAO:

public class SomeObjectDAOFactory {

        private static instance = new SomeObjectDAOFactory();

        public static SomeObjectDAOFactory getInstance() {
                return instance;
        }

        public SomeObjectDAO newInstance() {
                return new JT400SomeObjectDAO();
        }

}

You don't gave to use checked exceptions.   A framework like spring can 
obviate the need for trivial factory objects.




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Anybody has a good example on how should I design my web application for 
any file access related transaction?
 
I'm using struts to create this web apps.  I just wonder when I'm in the 
Action Form and I need to do some edit/insert/update on a record in a 
file, what is the correct way to design this.  I've read some article 
about DAO design pattern.  If this is a good approach, can anybody provide 
some example.  (Note: I'm using Tomcat4.1 and plan to use DBCP for 
connection pooling.) 
 
thanks.
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