Originally posted by veena madhukar:
When would you use the DAO patterns in regards to a stateful session bean?
a> When using BMP to reduce the dependence on underlying datastore.
b> You would not use DAO with Stateful session beans.
Choice A is the correct answer.
There are time that you need to access BMP entity Beans by an facade represented by an Stateful Session Bean. When using BMP, it is a very good approach use the DAO pattern to reduce the dependency between the beans and the underlying datastore.