RE: DataObject becomes hollow when passed through a tapestry DirectLink

From: Cris Daniluk (cris.danilu..laraview.com)
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 13:10:27 EDT

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    > > 3) The object has been created and registered with a data
    > context, but
    > > not yet committed. I would suggest that best practices dictate this
    > > use case never be exercised....
    >
    > I second the motion. A while ago I tried the approach of
    > creating and registering a DataObject in my page's setup, but
    > I never could get it to work completely right. If the user
    > changed his mind and back-buttoned to a previous page, it
    > left an uncommitted object in the DataContext. I think the
    > Refresh button wasn't too kind either. I finally gave up on
    > that approach.
    >

    We had similar problems. To make it worse, it ended up creating a huge
    coupling between the view and the service layer. This approach only seems
    worthwhile to me when you have an established persistence layer (ala EJB,
    etc) in your application.

    Cris



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