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This discussion concerns the merits of methods that give the clients a view of an object's attributes (such as Set/Get methods) versus methods that perform services. To get a background for this discussion, read the sections Set/Get: Thumbs Up and Set/Get: Thumbs Down in my article, "Impressions of SD '98" published in JavaWorld.

Bill Venners

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• Testing Yet Again - Bill Venners January 12, 20100 at 10:27 PM (4)
  • testing - Ajay April 17, 2000 at 7:44 PM (1)
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  • Testing 1, 2, 3, ... - Bill Venners January 12, 20100 at 10:31 PM (1)
    • Testing out sending of subject - Bill Venners January 12, 20100 at 10:38 PM (0)
• Testing - Bill Venners April 20, 1999 at 8:46 PM (2)
  • Testing Again - Bill Venners May 13, 1999 at 10:11 PM (1)
    • And Again - Bill Venners May 13, 1999 at 10:14 PM (0)
• object serialization - kamal 19 Nov 1998, 10:42 PM (0)
• listeners in Java - Becca 28 Jul 1998, 8:57 AM (1)
  • Listeners - Bill Venners 10 Aug 1998, 11:53 AM (1)
    • HI - kris February 24, 2002 at 8:04 AM (0)
• set/get - Alex Wong 16 Apr 1998, 10:47 AM (7)
  • Methods should be services, except when... - Bill Venners 07 May 1998, 5:28 PM (6)
    • The Get/Set question - Sebastian Nguyen July 02, 1999 at 8:55 AM (5)
      • Set/Get...the Problem - Craig Patchett July 23, 1999 at 3:01 PM (4)
        • Get/Set ... the problem - Sebastian Nguyen July 28, 1999 at 10:06 AM (3)
          • Set/Get...the Problem - Craig Patchett August 16, 1999 at 12:57 AM (2)
            • The Set/Get Question - Steve January 15, 2001 at 3:17 PM (0)
            • Encapsulation vs. code organization - Alex Bunard October 01, 1999 at 10:37 AM (0)
• Testing: Please Ignore - Bill Venners 08 Apr 1998, 1:47 PM (0)
• set/get - dave harpster 04 Mar 1998, 9:38 AM (0)
• Testing this Topic - Bill Venners 02 Mar 1998, 10:31 AM (3)
  • Testing the New Title Line - Bill Venners March 05, 2000 at 11:19 AM (0)
  • Testing the Template - Bill Venners January 19, 2000 at 11:29 PM (1)
    • szgsgg - eyr April 02, 2001 at 1:01 PM (0)