Design question

Hi,

I am new to j2ee platform.

I am working on a j2ee application with jsp as presentation layer. I am using struts as MVC pattern model. I am facing some puzzle while designing the application. Hope someone share their experience with me.

When there is a one-to-many relation in the database entity, how to design the objects in a object oriented manner? Should it be a customer object with a list of order object or just a list of order id?

I suppose it should be a list of order object.

But every time when a "save customer" request is received, usually contains the customer detail and a list of order id, I will create a customer object and pass to back end. Then I need to get the list of object object from backend first before I can create a customer object.

Seems quite bad.... any idea..

Thanks.

[869 byte] By [forum_user] at [2007-9-26 18:06:48]