Re: Is this good use of Properties?

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Bill Butler <qwerty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> "Rick Elbers" <rick.elbers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I hunted around a bit and came up with this:
> "Why getter and setter methods are evil " by Alan Holub
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html
> pay close attention to the forum that follows the article.
> (He does not get unanimous acceptance)

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Ah yes - I seem to remember seeing it before and disagreeing with it
then. The idea that a class should be able to draw itself just in case
it's needed in a UI seems ridiculous to me - which UI should be picked,
for instance? SWT? Swing? AWT? All three? What about a web UI? What
happened to separating presentation logic from business logic? How can
the author of a business class know all the different ways in which it
may need to be drawn?

It puts the onus on a class to know all the ways in which it might be
used, rather than providing something which can be used in a variety of
situations. I can see it working in some situations, but overall I'm
not a fan.

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