net.sf.mmm.util.transferobject.api

Class DataTo

java.lang.Object

net.sf.mmm.util.transferobject.api.AbstractTransferObject

net.sf.mmm.util.transferobject.api.DataTo

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Entity, TransferObject

Direct Known Subclasses:

EntityTo

public abstract class DataTo
extends AbstractTransferObject

This is the abstract base class for an TransferObject that only contains data without relations. This is called DTO (data transfer object). Here data means properties that typically represent a Datatype and potentially for relations the ID (typically as Long). For actual relations you will use CTOs to express what set of entities to transfer, load, save, update, etc. without redundancies. It typically corresponds to an entity. In such case consider EntityTo. Otherwise if you derive from this class rather than EntityTo use the suffix Dto.
For additional details and an example consult the package JavaDoc.

Since:

3.1.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
private static long	serialVersionUID

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DataTo() The constructor.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class net.sf.mmm.util.transferobject.api.AbstractTransferObject

clone, equals, hashCode, toString, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DataTo

public DataTo()

The constructor.