If you create a default no-arg constructor and have your private variables editable you don't need the extra @JsonProperty annotations - which seem to be repetitive as they just state the variable name again (although if you needed to have the JSON coming in match a different name than the variable name you could use the @JsonProperty to map them). Just my 2 cents, but with a much larger model with way more properties adding that notation over and over again would be tedious.