Hi,

we have an application which will be used to input and edit much data (like many business apps do). In the moment it's a stand alone application using SWT as GUI and Hibernate as DAO layer. We implemented some .NET-like generic data binding to the controls of the GUI using Hibernate metadata to get to the properties.

For easier concurrency management and transaction handling we want to switch to an application server.

So
1.) Is there a commonly used pattern/way in J2EE how to access domain objects in a batch without having to implement the Domain Facade pattern and implement caching on the client? Is there a way/piece of software to do the caching automatically?

2.) Is there a way getting to Hibernate metadata at the remote clients or any other way to get plain properties out of the objects without having to call the getters/setters?

Johannes