The product of JEP 395, the record keyword, lets you create a POJO (plain old Java object) without manually adding getters, setters, toString, equals, and hashcode methods as you normally would.

Java is one of the classic object-oriented languages, so classes and objects are of special interest to Java developers.

Reference objects aren't just useful when memory is at a premium; they can also be used to provide slick caching abilities to any application.