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It has been a long time, I'm looking for a solution to avoid the getter/setter boilerplate. I wanted a solution ready for jdk 1.5 (and if possible for jdk 1.4). And after some night (of reading, studing, try,...), I found not one solution but a combinaison of solution. No need anymore to write or generate getXxxx() and setXxxx(...). I keep my code cleaner and clearer. :
- Use public attribute as property, instead of private attribute and accessor methods.
- When I use framework/lib that can't access property without get/set, I post-compile classes files with GetAndSetAdder to generate basic public getter/setter on bytecode. This way, reflection based lib will continue to work. (It's a tool I wrote and publish)
- If I want to add behavior when properties are accessed, I use AOP to add extra stuff before/after reading/writing attribute.
Please have look at the
Faq to understand why it's a valid solution (I apply it on EJB3/JSF project),
description of the problem and the solution, and also
others approaches to compare with. I expect that after exploring this solution (reading documentation, faq,...), you will ask yourself :
"Why do we continue to use getter and setter ?"
Every comments are welcome.
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