@teresko 1) Yes, it is MVC, but within a 3-tier architecture.
DAO is a class that usually has the CRUD operations like save, update, delete. DTO is just an object that holds data. It is JavaBean with instance variables and setter and getters. The DTO is used to expose several values in a bean like fashion.
DTO — Data Transfer Object. DAO — Data Access Object.
DAOs are just the objects that abstract away the data storage mechanism. MVC is a design pattern where V and C are "strictly" form the presentation layer, and M can include everything that is beyond presentation (GUI). The model part in MVC has been an opinion based topic for a long time.
DTO
is an abbreviation for Data Transfer Object, so it is used to transfer the data between classes and modules of your application.
DTO
should only contain private fields for your data, getters, setters, and constructors.DTO
is not recommended to add business logic methods to such classes, but it is OK to add some util methods.DAO
is an abbreviation for Data Access Object, so it should encapsulate the logic for retrieving, saving and updating data in your data storage (a database, a file-system, whatever).
Here is an example of how the DAO and DTO interfaces would look like:
interface PersonDTO {
String getName();
void setName(String name);
//.....
}
interface PersonDAO {
PersonDTO findById(long id);
void save(PersonDTO person);
//.....
}
The MVC
is a wider pattern. The DTO/DAO would be your model in the MVC pattern.
It tells you how to organize the whole application, not just the part responsible for data retrieval.
As for the second question, if you have a small application it is completely OK, however, if you want to follow the MVC pattern it would be better to have a separate controller, which would contain the business logic for your frame in a separate class and dispatch messages to this controller from the event handlers.
This would separate your business logic from the view.
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