Why not? Java support reflection, so you can - at runtime - enumerate all the properties of an object. From there, you would assign each property from a to b. T

Why not? Java support reflection, so you can - at runtime - enumerate all the properties of an object. From there, you would assign each property from a to b. The only thing stopping this is that not all properties will be public, but this seems like a pedantic hangup to me. They are functionally equivalent.