DAO is Yet Another OOP Shame

Someone asked me what I think about DAO and I realized that, even though I wrote about ORM, DTO, and getters, I haven't had a chance yet to mention DAO. Here is my take on it: it's as much of a shame as its friends—ORM, DTO, and getters. In a nutshell, a Data Access Object is an object that "provides an abstract interface to some type of database or other persistence mechanism." The purpose is noble, but the implementation is terrible.

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