Hi,

Even after my discussion with Christian on 'CGLib. How to use"

I feel I should try use CGLib in my application.(could not undersatand DTOAssembler what Christian suggested)

Could not find a forum to discuss it so using the misc section on hibernate forums.
If there is any better forum pls suggest.

I went thru CGlib source and found that net.sf.cglib.beans.BeanCopier() cud be used for what I want to achieve ----

For eg if My Hibernate POJO is like

and I have another UI object

/*Note the _ (underscore) prefix on the attributes.*/

with the getters and setters as appropriate.

I have many such similar objects (attribute types cud vary, be composite/arays/ collections/...)

In my business-object/ dao class,
I invoke Hibernate API to fetch data into the POJO and then have to write a private method to map each attribute into its corresponding attribute in the UI class.

I wish to cut down on the code for this 'mapping' part and it looks like BeanCopier() can be used.

But then how to handle the _ (underscore) prefix on the attributes because of which the
POJO has a getProductCode() and setProductCode() while
UI has get_productCode() and set_productCode().

any clues will be appreciated.
or if there is anything better/ simpler than CGLib for this purpose pls suggest.

Use Reflection and write a simple Helper class to do the copying.