DAO vs. Active Record

The DAO pattern is a popular choice in term of implementing of Data Access Layer. There is another pattern start to be attractive to developers especially inside some Dynamic Programming languages -- The Active Record pattern. The basic idea is directly enhancing the Domain Object to do data persistence. Recommended to read more before making decision which one is better for your project.

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