Sending data across the wire.

So typically I create a Data Transfer Object to return values across the
wire that I have fetched and copy attributes from my model object to the
DTO.  This gets tedious quickly.  I wondered if there's not another way
that people are doing this, because this seems entirely too painful.

However, if* this is* what most people do, then perhaps a change could be
made to the modeler, that would all you to create automatically a set of
DTO objects with when you generate the model objects.  I recognize that
this would be a rather significant effort and I'm guessing that there's
probably a better way, but I'm not aware of what it is.

Any suggestions?


Tony Giaccone