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edwinnathaniel on March 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everything about Java 8

2 things: 3rd-party API that only works on "beans" and thin object (not your Services or DAOs that use DI heavily).

mercurial on March 28, 2013 [–]

You can't do much with 3rd-party APIs. For thin objects, a best practice is to keep them immutable by having only getters, but then you generally end up with Builder boilerplate.

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