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copied!<p>A JavaBean is just a <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/spec-136004.html" rel="noreferrer">standard</a></p> <ol> <li>All properties private (use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutator_method" rel="noreferrer">getters/setters</a>)</li> <li>A public <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullary_constructor" rel="noreferrer">no-argument constructor</a></li> <li>Implements <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>Serializable</code></a>.</li> </ol> <p>That's it. It's just a convention. Lots of libraries depend on it though.</p> <p>With respect to <code>Serializable</code>, from the <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html" rel="noreferrer">API documentation</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> </blockquote> <p>In other words, serializable objects can be written to streams, and hence files, object databases, anything really. </p> <p>Also, there is no syntactic difference between a JavaBean and another class -- a class defines a JavaBean if it follows the standards.</p> <p>There is a term for it because the standard allows libraries to programmatically do things with class instances you define in a predefined way. For example, if a library wants to stream any object you pass into it, it knows it can because your object is serializable (assuming the lib requires your objects be proper JavaBeans). </p>

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