Java Getters and Setters

Question

Is there a better standard way to create getters and setters in Java?

It is quite verbose to have to explicitly define getters and setters for each variable. Is ther

Answer 1

I've created some annotations that are not eclipse-specific.

See http://code.google.com/p/javadude/wiki/Annotations

For example:

package sample;

import com.javadude.annotation.Bean;
import com.javadude.annotation.Property;
import com.javadude.annotation.PropertyKind;

@Bean(properties={
    @Property(name="name"),
    @Property(name="phone", bound=true),
    @Property(name="friend", type=Person.class, kind=PropertyKind.LIST)
}) 
public class Person extends PersonGen {
}

My annotations generate a superclass; I think Lombok modifies the actual class being compiled (which is officially not supported by Sun and may break - I could be wrong about how it works, but based on what I've seen they must be doing that)

Enjoy! -- Scott