Say, You have an application which lists down users in your application. Ideally, if you were writing code to achieve this in Java, irrespective of what your UI layer is, I would think that you would write code which retrieves result set from the database and maps it to your application object. So, in this scenario, you are looking at your ORM / Data layer doing its thing and creating a list of "User" objects. Say, You have an application which lists down u