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Getter Setter: To Use or Not to Use

Java Getter Setter Why do we keep instance variables private? We don’t want other classes to depend on them. Moreover it gives the flexibility to change a variable’s type or implementation on a whim or an impulse. Why, then do programmers automatically...

13 replies - 8103 views - 10/19/10 by Muhammad Khojaye in Articles

Java: Getters and Setters

Why do we keep instance variables private? We don’t want other classes to depend on them. Moreover it gives the flexibility to change a variable’s type or implementation on a whim or an impulse. Why, then programmers automatically add getters and setters...

0 replies - 2296 views - 09/10/10 by Muhammad Khojaye in Articles

Java Properties Without Getters and Setters

During the last Devoxx conference, Mark Reinhold, Sun's chief engineer for Java SE, gave a presentation on the latest directions for Java 7. (Hamlet D'Arcy's summary of Mark's presentation is available here.)

13 replies - 25038 views - 05/30/09 by Javier Paniza in Articles

New Approach to Encoding in IntelliJ IDEA - Continued

In one of the recent posts we have discussed the new way to deal with encoding of the source files. Today, we’ll continue with the properties files. As of EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 8.0, encoding of the properties files also becomes a project setting, rather than...

2 replies - 5864 views - 05/21/08 by Irina Megorskaya in Articles