Say Goodbye to Boilerplate with Java 17 Records

Spring Boot applications deal a lot with DTOs, responses, and immutable objects. Java 17’s record feature makes our lives easier:

public class User {
    private String name;
    private String email;
    public User(String name, String email) {
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
    }
    public String getName() { return name; }
    public String getEmail() { return email; }
}

After (Using Java 17 record 🎉)

public record User(String name, String email) {}

✅ No more boilerplate.
✅ Automatic toString(), equals(), and hashCode().
✅ Immutable by default.

When to use records? Perfect for DTOs and API responses, but avoid them for JPA entities!