How to copy properties from one Java bean to another?

Question

I have a simple Java POJO that I would copy properties to another instance of same POJO class.

I know I can do that with BeanUtils.copyProperties() but I would like

Answer 1

There is no simple way to do it. Introspector and the Java beans libraries are monolithic - BeanUtils is a simple wrapper around this and works well. Not having libraries just to not have libraries is a bad idea in general - there's a reason it's commons to begin with - common functionality that should exist with Java, but doesn't.