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This article examines the limitations of BeanCopy for Java DTO mapping—such as inheritance handling, recursive copying, lack of complex type support, performance overhead, and opaque assignments—and demonstrates how MapStruct can address these issues with compile‑time generated, type‑safe mappers.
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