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Java Abstract Classes

Brendan Whiting
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How is this strategy different than the Lombok @NoArgsConstructor?

We're creating a BaseEntity class in this video that seems to be doing a similar thing to what we've done before with the @NoArgsConstructor annotation from Lombok. Just curious how this is different or why we might choose this strategy or the other.

@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class BaseEntity {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private final Long id;

    protected BaseEntity() {
        this.id = null;
    }
}