Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

Search serves the purpose of retrieving a view or list of already persisted instances of business objects for a business scenario. For example, in a bank account system, a typical search would be, ...

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The Data Access Object (DAO) pattern provides an abstraction layer between the business logic tier (business object) and the persistent storage tier (data source). Business objects access data sources ...