Is there a way to use annotations in Java to replace accessors?

Question

I\'m a little new to the Java 5 annotations and I\'m curious if either of these are possible:

This annotation would generate a simple getter and setter for you.

Answer 1

It's possible, just not where you're declaring them.

Check out http://code.google.com/p/javadude/wiki/Annotations.

I have a class annotated like

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 {}

And it generates the PersonGen class for you, containing getters/setters, etc

The processor also does quite a bit more. Note that I'm working on a new version of it that has a little API breakage from the current version