What is a JavaBean really? Simple explanation with examples

Hi everyone! I'm a beginner Java developer, studying for about six months. I'm reading a book and constantly come across the term "JavaBean". I kind of understand that it's some kind of class, but I get confused every time. Different sources say: - "JavaBean is a class that implements Serializable" - "JavaBean must have a no-argument constructor" - "All fields must be private, with access via getters and setters" - "JavaBean is used for data encapsulation" But when I look at real projects on GitHub, I see plenty of classes that are called "beans", but they don't implement Serializable. Or they use Lombok, which generates getters/setters. Is that still a JavaBean? Here's an example of my class that I consider a JavaBean: ```java public class User { private String name; private int