Scott and company,
Thank you all for your input on this one... I certainly see the issue
more clearly at this point. We're working on our bean layer now and
I'm excited about the way things are shaping up. Thanks again for the
help, and if anyone ever needs advice about using Cayenne and
Generally speaking, all persistence layers work similarly in this
regard. You could even say that JDBC works this way, in that serializing
a ResultSet to the client would be an unsafe operation for the same
reasons I mentioned below.
Somewhat off-topic, I've picked up the RC of GWT 1.5; I've been