Search serves the purpose of retrieving a view or list of already persisted instances of business objects for a business scenario. For example, in a bank account system, a typical search would be, ...

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Learn how the Data Transfer Object design pattern is implemented in Java ME architectures and why you might want to use XML-based DTOs rather than Java beans for faster data interchange between tiers.

Peter starts off with a perfectly good solution to a problem but then complicates the problem . . . and ends up moving to a different design pattern. While on that journey he has some best practices ...