From the book
Forces
Forces
- You want to implement data access mechanisms to access and manipulate data in a persistent storage.
- You want to decouple the persistent storage implementation from the rest of your application.
- You want to provide a uniform data access API for a persistent mechanism to various types of data sources, such as RDBMS, LDAP, OODB, XML repositories, flat files, and so on.
- You want to organize data access logic and encapsulate proprietary features to facilitate maintainability and portability.