Is using data transfer objects in ejb3 considered best practice

Question

Although obviously not all scenarios can be covered by a single design, is it generally felt now that ORM classes should be passed to and fro between the presentation and busine

Answer 1

I think DTOs existence is related to JPA/Hibernate flaws. If you could always do transparently lazy initialization you will never use them. So using DTOs is a contract where my domain/workspace always lose (duplication everywhere). Summing up, you can use them but you have to hate them :)