I have recently blogged about an idea how JavaBeans™ could be extended to reduce the bloat created by this widely-accepted convention in the Java world. That article was reblogged on DZone and got quite controversial feedback here (like most ideas that try to get some fresh ideas into the Java world): http://java.dzone.com/articles/javabeans™-should-be-extended. I want to … Continue reading Bloated JavaBeans™, Part II – or Don’t Add “Getters” to Your API
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JavaBeans™ should be extended to reduce bloat
JavaBeans™ has been around for a long time in the Java world. At some point of time, people realised that the concept of getters and setters was good to provide some abstraction over "object properties", which should not be accessed directly. A typical "bean" would look like this: public class MyBean { private int myProperty; … Continue reading JavaBeans™ should be extended to reduce bloat