Java getter / setter methods for a field of the same name are not included in DClass. For example, methods getFoo / setFoo which get / set a field foo are not included in the functions property on ...

Getty is a library that aims to help with chaining long getter calls on Java objects. It also adds the ability to handle exceptions and/or null values at every link on the call-chain. It uses no ...

It’s a 25-year-old principle of object-oriented (OO) design that you shouldn’t expose an object’s implementation to any other classes in the program. The program is unnecessarily difficult to maintain ...

I didn’t intend to start an “is evil” series, but several readers asked me to explain why I mentioned that you should avoid get/set methods in last month’s column, “Why extends Is Evil.” Though getter ...