I want to create a DAO layer for my application. After some googling I found that many peoples uses Generic DAO approach (Don’t repeat the DAO!).
But I did not like this approach.
What if I need slightly different interfaces between DAO for different DAO implementations? (i.e. methods in generic interface not exactly same which I want to create in my DAO implementations)
What if my entity’s primary key consists of more than one attribute?
If you need a slightly different DAO for a particular entity, you can always extend a generic one(
MySpecificDAO <....> extends GenericDAO<....>). Primary key can be composite itself, but it’s impossible to have 2 primary keys .