The Data Access Object ... typical DAO pattern implementation strategy, noting its shortcomings. Then, I move on to the new implementation, explaining its classes. I also explore an example ...

No need for setters and getters in this * Java object serialization tutorial. We * will 'punch up' the class used for the * ObjectOutputStream example at the end * of this Java object serialization ...

for example. In this case, testing some object that depends on a DAO object becomes a bit easier if you can mock out the DAO and thus not have to worry about an associated database, etc.