Allen Holub's past Java Toolbox column, " Why Getter and Setter Methods Are Evil," discussed the downside of the getter/setter idiom. That article presented a design-level solution. (By keeping ...

Here's how to make classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects work together in your Java programs.

Create the public getter and setter messages for every property on every object A single resulting class, in this case one from Twitter, might look something like this: ...