see: https://saranganjana.medium.com/data-transfer-object-dto-in-java-66c4f3075362 public class CustomerDTO { private final String firstName; private final String lastName; private final String email; public CustomerDTO(String firstName, String lastName, String email) { this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; this.email = email; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public String getEmail() { return email; } }