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Why Dozer Framework (Bean Manipulation)

Why Dozer ? Let us think about a situation that you have a source bean which contains lot of fields and the source bean belongs to a different project or module. Now you want to expose the bean to  the outside world as a part of your web service REST service development. It is not advisable to do it. There may be the following reasons. The source bean is not serialized and a final class. The source system does not allow doing it because of security breach. The source bean is very heavy and contains lot of nested beans. The source bean has fields of different types which may not be required for other system. The source bean has lot of fields; some of them are not required. Scenario to use Dozer Suppose You want to make a REST call or web service call to get the minimal account details of a person. But the source system has a bean called “Acc0untBean” which contains many sensitive information like person’s internet banking passw0rd, PAN no or social securit