Repository versus Data Access Object
Sometimes the idea of a Repository is considered synonymous with Data Access Object, or DAO. Both provide an abstraction over a persistence mechanism. This is true. However, an object-relational mapping tool also provides an abstraction over a persistence mechanism, but it is neither a Repository nor a DAO. Thus, we wouldn’t call just any persistence abstraction a DAO. We must rather determine if the DAO pattern is being implemented.
I think there are generally differences between Repositories and DAOs. Basically, a DAO is expressed in terms of database tables, providing CRUD interfaces to them. Martin Fowler in [Fowler, P of EAA] separates the uses of DAO-like facilities from those that are used with a domain ...
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