Question for using wrapper class at POJO

[jiminhsieh]

Sorry, I don't know where is a suitable place to discuss the question, so I just open an issue here to ask my question.

I have a question about the 8th point of OOP rules.

8. [Mandatory] Rules for using primitive data types and wrapper classes:
     1) Members of a POJO class must be wrapper classes.
     2) The return value and arguments of a RPC method must be wrapper classes.
     3) [Recommended] Local variables should be primitive data types.

Based on this rule, it will only allow us to use the primitive type in local variables. Then, we need to use wrapper classes in all other places.

The thing is that most of the suggestions I saw at the Internet is we should avoid wrapper classes as much as possible.
The reasons are

• performance
• memory footprint

So could anybody explain the reason behind this rule? Thanks. 🙏