Every up-to-date Java developer knows what a ‘plain old java object’ is and its shorthand: POJO. It is a reasonable term from the view of a Java developer and especially of a JEE developer. But there is so much hype around POJOs that other communities are using this term too. So I found articles about ‘plain old CLR/C# objects’ - shortly called POCOs as you may imagin - and a few minutes ago I stumbled upon ‘plain old groovy objects’ or POGOs.

What the hack is old within a ‘POCO’ or a ‘POGO’? Did I miss ‘.Net 2 enterprise edition’ and ‘enterprise groovy beans’? When will there be POROs and POBOs and POPOs and ...?

Perhaps the term ‘simple objects’ does really describe what is meant.