Data Transfer Object

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Also known as: Transfer Object

Make the objects returned by a method immutable by copying their contents into special objects that only contain values and have no behavior.

Use a Transfer Object to encapsulate the business data. A single method call is used to send and retrieve the Transfer Object. When the client requests the enterprise bean for the business data, the enterprise bean can construct the Transfer Object, populate it with its attribute values, and pass it by value to the client.

Data Transfer Object

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