The getter/setter idiom is a commonplace feature in many Java programs. Most of these accessor methods, however, are unnecessary and can severely impact your systems' maintainability. Using ...

The first listing shows a simple example of a PersonBean class with no-arguments constructor and getter and setter methods. That code listing also includes some of the JavaBeans-style classes it uses.

There will be getter methods for properties, but there will be no setters. The number of wins, losses and ties maintained by the Score class can only be incremented by one at a time, so instead of ...