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Not sure if I got you right. The backing data classes/pojos are needed to store the actual data. The viewmodel is only an aggregation and representation of what is shown in the view. But when actually changing data, the flow is something like this, I think: user enters data, it gets written to the viewmodel, when committing, the viewmodel validates the input (if validators are attached) and writes the data to the backing pojo/object.