Difference between Transfer objects and Domain objects

Question

Could you please explain the difference between Transfer objects and Domain objects in simple terms ? And if u could give a Java example, that would be great..

Answer 1

Domain object in business perspective, it is actor or subject of the activity with whole domain and flows, DTO is the data object which is not the same as data bean that faithfully to reflect database objects (especially at ORM architecture) DTO can has data aggregation, transform , combination to satisfy the representation or some data munipulate needs , it is no subject , but Domain object has subject base on their domain level defination