DTO to Entity Mapping Tool

Question

I have an entity class Person and its corresponding DTO class PersonDto.

public class Person: Entity
{
  public virtual string Name { g         


        

Answer 1

You can have a look on the two most used Object-Object mapper:

AutoMapper

AutoMapper is a simple little library built to solve a deceptively complex problem - getting rid of code that mapped one object to another. This type of code is rather dreary and boring to write, so why not invent a tool to do it for us?

Value Injecter

ValueInjecter lets you define your own convention-based matching algorithms (ValueInjections) in order to match up (inject) source values to destination values.

There is a comparison article on SO: AutoMapper vs ValueInjecter

Answer 2

You can use GeDA for mapping any entity to a DTO object, it comes with either annotations or DSL support.

http://inspire-software.com/confluence/display/GeDA/FAQ

There are only basic examples on the wiki but jUnits of source code are full of useful examples

You can get it from sourceforge or google code manually or via maven dependency

Details are here: http://inspire-software.com/confluence/display/GeDA/GeDA+-+Generic+DTO+Assembler