Alternative to dozer for bean mapping?

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benstpierre picture benstpierre · Nov 26, 2009 · Viewed 30.1k times · Source

I am trying to figure out an easy way to map DTOs to entities without the boiler-plate code. While I was thinking of using dozer it appears to require a lot of xml configuration. Has anybody seen a dozer alternative that uses a DSL to configure the bean mapping in pure Java?

Ideally I am hoping to find a bean mapper that is inspired by the way Guice does things.

Answer

Sidi picture Sidi · Apr 9, 2012

Look at Orika.

Orika is a Java Bean mapping framework that recursively copies (among other capabilities) data from one object to another. It can be very useful when developing multi-layered applications.

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