No, it is not.

Ideally, DTOs will match your resistance repositories (aka, your database tables).

But your business classes are not necessarily a match. You might need additional classes , or separated, or joined classes to what you have in database. If your application is small, you might not really see this kind of problems, but in medium to large applications, this will happen often.

Another thing is that DTOs are part of the domain of whatever it is that deals with persistence, while your Business Layer should know nothing about them.

No, it is not.

Ideally, DTOs will match your persistence repositories (aka, your database tables).

But your business classes are not necessarily a match. You might need additional classes , or separated, or joined classes to what you have in database. If your application is small, you might not really see this kind of problems, but in medium to large applications, this will happen often.

Another thing is that DTOs are part of the domain of whatever it is that deals with persistence, while your Business Layer should know nothing about them.