Dozer DTO assembler (upate)

Dozer is a nice little object mapper. It moves data from one object to another.

Dozer can be used as a generic Data Transfer Object assembler. You specify your mappings in an XML file. By default it copies data to properties with the same names, unless you add specific field mappings.

 <mapping>
   <class-a>z.Original</class-a>
   <class-b>a.Kloon</class-b>
      <field>
         <a>identity</a>
         <b>uid</b>
      </field>
 </mapping>

Next you call dozer in your code to move your data:

public Kloon getDto (Original o) {
  return dozerMapper.map(o, Kloon.class);
}

Dozer can reverse map from class-b to class-a as well. There is an annotation based mapping mechanism which works well for simple cases.

MapStruct is a good annotation driven alternative.