Properties
of Beans
Properties make beans easily editable in an IDE.
- If we use the get and set naming conventions, users can set bean properties in the Property Inspector of the IDE.
- Note the capitalization. The property starts with a lowercase letter, while the method starts with "set", and then the property name starting with a capital letter. This is important.
- The getter method:
- Question: How could we apply this to a database connection?
The setter method:
public void setSampleProperty (String value)
will set the String property sampleProperty to the value we pass in as databaseName.
public String getSampleProperty ();
will return a String sampleProperty object.