The first thing I learnt when I started with Object-Oriented Programming was that an object should have state and behaviour. And indeed, that’s how it was back then. However, since J2EE (Entity Beans) and other ORM tools like Hibernate, iBATIS, TopLink…

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant Sandro Mancuso Over the years, working in different web-based Java projects, I noticed that there is a big confusion about the boundaries and overlaps between MVC, that is an architectural pattern, and a multi-tier architecture (also known as n-tier architecture). The main confusion is in [...]