To DAO or not to DAO

creaturita · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:53 am **Posts:** 4

Hello everyone,

We are developing an Architecture. We are using WCF, NHibernate and coding using entities, not pure classes.

In this scenario I don't think that DAO should be good for us when sending an Entity, I could use it for grouping entities or making my own messages, but 90% of the time I will be sending entities, and I do not think that mapping exactly the same to DAO.

the problem here is when the entity I want to send is related with other entities. I do not want to send the related (I know about lazy, but think that I have loaded its relations), just the one for I am asking for.

What do you think?

dyahav · **Joined:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:44 am **Posts:** 28

Hi,

I'm sorry but the question isn't clear enough.
Please try to rephrase it and I'll try to help.

You can also add an example...

creaturita · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:53 am **Posts:** 4

I would like to send just an entity, not the related objects.

If I have a entity Person related with works I just want to send the Person to the client.