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So, lets ditch JavaBeans "the component architecture for the Java 2 Platform".

If only more people would understand this...

The author of this piece is a moron. Someone asked him in the comments:

"Say you needed to populate a listbox with the names of you customers (Customer being the object with a member variable Name). How would you code this so that you don’t use a getter?”

and his response was:

"Implement a Customer method addNameToList(listbox). The listbox object passed in would need a method to add a single name, so Customer::addNameToList(listbox) would in turn call listbox.add(this.Name)."

So now, a class designed to hold simple data is coupled to UI classes. How stupid is that? And I suppose you would need a different "addNameToXXX" method for each UI component out there. All because he claims a customer class should not have a getName() method.

voted up just for the discussion value, where as controlling scope is always a necessary, and in the point of less is more, accessors should not just automatically be created, using the ide is a good and bad thing.