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Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices Build enterprise-ready scalable applications with architectural design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830621
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rhuan Rocha Rhuan Rocha
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Paulo Alberto Simoes Paulo Alberto Simoes
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Joao Carlos Purificação Joao Carlos Purificação
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Preface 1. Introduction to Design Patterns 2. Presentation Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Business Patterns 4. Integration Patterns 5. Aspect-Oriented Programming and Design Patterns 6. Reactive Patterns 7. Microservice Patterns 8. Cloud-Native Application Patterns 9. Security Patterns 10. Deployment Patterns 11. Operational Patterns 12. MicroProfile 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Explaining the business-object pattern

As the name suggests, a business object represents something in the real world and something associated with the business of the application. A business object is like an actor in an application use case. Examples of business objects include bank accounts, car insurance, college professors, students, employees, purchase orders, and payable or receivable accounts.

When it comes to simple applications with very little business complexity, that is, with few (or no) business rules, there may not be a need for a BO in the system. Better yet, a POJO entity that represents a database entity can be considered a BO. It is important to see the difference here. An entity or a POJO representative of an entity (such as a JPA POJO ) is closer to the technology and structure than to a business-model object. So, for this example...

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