POCO's, DTO's, DLL's and Anaemic Domain Models

Question

I was looking at the differences between POCO and DTO (It appears that POCO\'s are dto\'s with behaviour (methods?))and came across this article by Martin Fowler on the anaemic

Answer 1

I think the best way to clarify this is by definition:

DTO: Data Transfer Objects:

They only serve for data transportation typically between presentation layer and service layer. Nothing less or more. Generally it is implemented as class with gets and sets.

public class ClientDTO
{
    public long Id {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
}

BO: Business Objects:

Business objects represents the business elements and naturally the best practice says they should contain business logic also. As said by Michael Meadows, it is also good practice to isolate data access from this objects.

public class Client
{
    private long _id;
    public long Id 
    { 
        get { return _id; }
        protected set { _id = value; } 
    }
    protected Client() { }
    public Client(string name)
    {
        this.Name = name;    
    }
    private string _name;
    public string Name
    {
        get { return _name; }
        set 
        {   // Notice that there is business logic inside (name existence checking)
            // Persistence is isolated through the IClientDAO interface and a factory
            IClientDAO clientDAO = DAOFactory.Instance.Get();
            if (clientDAO.ExistsClientByName(value))
            {
                throw new ApplicationException("Another client with same name exists.");
            }
            _name = value;
        }
    }
    public void CheckIfCanBeRemoved()
    {
        // Check if there are sales associated to client
        if ( DAOFactory.Instance.GetDAO().ExistsSalesFor(this) )
        {
            string msg = "Client can not be removed, there are sales associated to him/her.";
            throw new ApplicationException(msg);
        }
    }
}

Service or Application Class These classes represent the interaction between User and the System and they will make use of both ClientDTO and Client.

public class ClientRegistration
{
    public void Insert(ClientDTO dto)
    {
        Client client = new Client(dto.Id,dto.Name); /// <-- Business logic inside the constructor
        DAOFactory.Instance.Save(client);        
    }
    public void Modify(ClientDTO dto)
    {
        Client client = DAOFactory.Instance.Get(dto.Id);
        client.Name = dto.Name;  // <--- Business logic inside the Name property
        DAOFactory.Instance.Save(client);
    }
    public void Remove(ClientDTO dto)
    {
        Client client = DAOFactory.Instance.Get(dto.Id);
        client.CheckIfCanBeRemoved() // <--- Business logic here
        DAOFactory.Instance.Remove(client);
    }
    public ClientDTO Retrieve(string name)
    {
        Client client = DAOFactory.Instance.Get().FindByName(name);
        if (client == null) { throw new ApplicationException("Client not found."); }
        ClientDTO dto = new ClientDTO()
        {
            Id = client.Id,
            Name = client.Name
        }
    }
}