Hello,

I'm currently coding a Dao layer with quite a few tables / classes.

Some of them have properties that are collections.

My own design guideline regarding when not to have such a property collection, is when the size of the collection is likely to grow big, into the hundreds of items if not thousands.

Is that a sensible guideline ? Or am I being too conservative here ?

My concern is to avoid loading into memory a huge collection of items that would impact the performance of the application.

Thanks for your tips.

Stephane