Java 16 Record to Reduce Boilerplate Code of POJO
Hey, Tea Lovers! Java 16 is released a few days back, well, a month to be precise. It introduced 17 new features. I discussed the 4 features that the developer will use a lot in my previous post, Simplified Java 16 Key Features. In this post, we will deep dive into Java 16 Record to see how it helps us to reduce the boilerplate code of POJO classes. POJO Boilerplate Code Whenever you need a simple class to hold the data, you write a POJO class, right? But Even though your need is simple, you need to write tonnes of code for just a few things. Such as getters and setters, constructors, toString, and equals and hashcode. No matter how many different POJOs you write, you have to write these 90% similar methods. These things with little to no changes that we have to write again and again for simple purposes are known as Boilerplate code. ...