usage of property vs getters/setters in business classes

Question

When dealing with buisness classes, like the typical Customer and Employee classes, is it better to use getters and setters only or to use properties?

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Answer 1

No. Getters and setters are only there in Java because it doesn't have properties. It makes for much cleaner code to use properties. And then if you need a getter or a setter, you can build it into the property, but you don't have to litter the accessing code with a bunch of function calls.