According this article, generic JPA DAO(Data Access Object) is a pretty nice pattern.
Is there any good implementation?
According this article, generic JPA DAO(Data Access Object) is a pretty nice pattern.
Is there any good implementation?
You could take a look into the Spring Data JPA.
A few new concepts were introduced into Spring Data JPA, for instance the Query creation based on the method name, so you can declare a method like findById(String id)
and the "generic" implementation will interpret the method's name and execute something like select Entity from Entity where id = 'given string'
Methods like findByNameAndLastName(String name, String lastName)
or even findByNameOrInternalId(String name, int internalId)
are supported too.
Just wanted to mention a couple more generic dao implementations for JPA: