Hey
Juha-P Lindfors wrote:
> Anyhow, with EJB2.0 all access to CMP fields will go through accessor
> methods, so it would seem that at least then it is not necessary to keep
> these fields public (though the spec draft doesn't change the requirements
> for this, CMP fields are still required to be public).
You mean "CMP accessors are still require to be public".
> Not sure why this requirement was made in the first place. Although since
> the container is the only one accessing the bean class I guess it doesn't
> make that much difference but still it seems to go against the coding
> practice many OO programmers use.
Reasons:
1) Reflection is not available in JDK 1.1
2) Containers that use subclassing of components to access the
CMP-fields can only do this with full flexibility if the fields are
public
/Rickard
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