Exposing Data to Clients

Data model components are business components that collect data and present it to the client model. Data model components are client-facing, which means that you should design them based on your client's specific data needs. Because data model components are tailored to a client's data needs, they are not as reusable as business domain components. However, data model components can be reused between applications that use the same data, even if those applications have very different ways of presenting the information (for example, the same data model components can be used by both a "rich" Java client and an HTML web application.

The following topics describe developing data model components to expose data and accessing them from client applications: