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[Introduction]

How many times did you write code like this:

private EPerson map(Person p) {
    EPerson returnValue = new EPerson();

    returnValue.setId(p.getId());
    returnValue.setName(p.getName());
    returnValue.setSurname(p.getSurname());
    try {
        returnValue.setBirth(DATE_FORMAT.parse(p.getBirth()));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    returnValue.setGender(Gender.valueOf(p.getGender()));

    return returnValue;
}

private Person map(EPerson p) {
    Person returnValue = new Person(
            p.getId(), 
            p.getName(), 
            p.getSurname(), 
            DATE_FORMAT.format(p.getBirth()), 
            p.getGender().name());

    return returnValue;
}

... and how many times you wished a tool that did this work alone, relieving the burden of writing code to copy data from one object to another one and the conversion of numbers / dates to string and vice versa?

Would be nice to write a command like:

EPerson ePerson = session.map(person, EPerson.class);

Person person2 = session.map(ePerson, Person.class);

and assume that there is someone who do the "dirty work" in our place!

** JMapper is a library that is born in order to solve this problem, by performing data mapping in an automatic way and a series of more or less complicated conversions of the various fields contained in user's objects.**

Moreover, since the mappings are defined through annotations placed directly in the various fields of classes to be mapped, ** the possibility of errors due to failure of conversion methods or classes updates is strongly reduced.**

All this, combined with a ** complete and fully integrated support of third-party libraries' mapping classes and classes for which no provision was made for the mapping annotations **, in order to facilitate integration with existing code, complete the framework for great library which manages the movements of data within or between different layers of applications.