What is the use of encapsulation when I'm able to change the property values with setter methods?

Question

I try to understand a lot of times but I failed to understand this.

Encapsulation is the technique of making the fields in a class private and provi

Answer 1

Accessing fields thru methods make difference because it makes it OOP. Eg you can extend you class and change the behaviour which you cannot do with direct access. If you have getters / setters you can make a proxy of your class and do some AOP or a make a 1.4 dynamic proxy. You can make a mock from your class and make unit testing...