Category: pojo

The Death of Beans

July 1, 2009 3 min read beans java methodology pojo programming sun xjava 7 comments

My previous post was more of a rant about the frustrations of Java Beans: Have Beans been holding us back? I stated at the end of my post/rant that my next post would be about what I suggest as the viable successor to Java Beans. To that end, I begin my discussion about properties. Though...

Have Beans been holding us back?

June 30, 2009 3 min read beans java methodology pojo programming sun xjava 0 comments

I have been a Java developer for many years now and have always taken for granted some of the standards pushed on me from the beginning. Java standards such as basic Java Beans (aka POJOs) are supposed to make life easier by providing simple getters/setters that work with the private fields of your…