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Re:A bad citizen in Javaland (2006) by incepted on Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:08AM (#10669589)
> The JavaBean idea arose because early versions of Java had no way of performing introspection

Not quite. Java has had introspection since 1996. What JavaBeans brought is a consistent way of naming your methods so that classes can be introspected and made sense of in a way that allows composition and interaction.

Re:A bad citizen in Javaland (2006) by jt2190 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @10:23AM (#10670011)
I stand corrected. :)