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Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by esrauch on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:00PM (#3462785)
C# allows it but but Java doesn't have this. Hence why it's standard operating procedure to just use setters from the beginning, because it might be nontrivial to update all references.
Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by jiggy2011 on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:26PM (#3462864)
Play! framework allows you to use getters and setters with public members as you would in C#.

Not sure how this is implemented.

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by aaimnr on Friday January 13, 2012 @07:09PM (#3463000)
Spring Roo does the same through the use of aspect programming (code generation, essentially - it generates the boilerplate behind the scenes).