Though getter/setter methods are commonplace in Java, they are not particularly object oriented (OO). In fact, they can damage your code’s maintainability. Moreover, the presence of numerous ...

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.

Project Lombok is designed to reduce boilerplate code, the amount of which is historically notorious in many Java projects. Lombok uses annotations for this task in order to streamline things like ...