'''Business delegate''' is a [[Java Platform, Enterprise Edition|Java EE]] design pattern.
<ref name=":o_cjp">{{Cite web|url = http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/businessdelegate-137562.html|title = Core J2EE Patterns – Business Delegate|access-date = 22 June 2016|website = Oracle|publisher = Oracle}}</ref> This pattern is directingdirected totowards reducereducing the [[Coupling (computer programming)|coupling]] in between business services and the connected presentation tier, and to hide the implementation details of services (including lookup and accessibility of [[Enterprise JavaBeans|EJB]] architecture).<ref name=":o_cjp"/><ref name=":stdd">{{Cite book|title = Screening Technical Design Document – Version 2.0|publisher = Indiana state|___location = Indiana, USA|pages = 7}}</ref> Business delegates acts as an adaptor to invoke business objects from the presentation tier.<ref name=":pjeesp">{{Cite book|title = Pro Java EE Spring Patterns|url = https://archive.org/details/projavaeespringp00kaya|url-access = limited|last = Kayal|first = D.|publisher = Apress|year = 2008|___location = New York|pages = [https://archive.org/details/projavaeespringp00kaya/page/n182 161]–166}}</ref>