I have the following two classes. Can I say the first one is a POJO class and the second one as a Bean class?
1) POJO class, since it has only getter and setter method, and all the member are declared as private
public class POJO {
private int id;
private String name;
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setId() {
this.id = id;
}
public void setName() {
this.name = name;
}
}
2) Bean class - all the member variables are private, has getters and setters and implements Serializable
interface
public class Bean implements java.io.Serializable {
private String name;
private Integer age;
public String getName() {
return this.name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public Integer getAge() {
return this.age;
}
public void setAge(Integer age) {
this.age = age;
}
}
It also has a no-arg constructor.
Only difference is bean can be serialized.
From Java docs - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html
Serializability of a class is enabled by the class implementing the java.io.Serializable interface. Classes that do not implement this interface will not have any of their state serialized or deserialized. All subtypes of a serializable class are themselves serializable. The serialization interface has no methods or fields and serves only to identify the semantics of being serializable.