Differences between a POJO, a JavaBean and an Entity

springboot
POJO
JavaBean
Entity
Author

ProtossGP32

Published

March 7, 2023

Introduction

From Baeldung article:

Plain Old Java Objects (POJO)

Description

Reflection with POJO

JavaBean

Description

Reflection

Entity

Description

Tradeoffs when using JavaBeans

  • Mutability
  • Boilerplate
  • Zero-argument Constructor