Consider a restful service in Spring MVC. I am wondering how to package my response classes, i.e. how to name the containing package.
First I thought of them as being domain objects. But they are actually a bit different, because they wrap my true domain objects like this:
{
header: {
// ...
},
domainObjectSpecificKey: {
// domain object properties
}
}
The response class is mapped to the top-level JSON object. So then I thought they may be DTOs actually -- but as far as I understand DTOs are used between application layers, and not for "output" objects to be used between separate applications.
So my questions is: does this kind of object have a special name? If yes, what's that? If not, can we definitely state that it is NOT a DTO or a domain object, i.e. should I name the package differently or can I use the one of that seems better to my liking?