Java :Setter Getter and constructor

Question

I\'m a bit confused about the use of getter/setters and constructors (see the below code for an example)

    public class ExampleClass {

        private in         


        

Answer 1

Sometimes, when creating a new object of a class, some values HAVE TO be provided. For an example, when connecting to database and creating Connection class object you have to provide a connection string, so that it knows what are you connecting to. Creating new connection without specyfing target database would be pretty useless, right?

Also, take a look at this

Foo foo=new Foo(1,2,3,4,5,6,7);

and this

Foo foo=new Foo();
foo.setP1(1);
foo.setP2(2);
foo.setP3(3);
foo.setP4(4);
foo.setP5(5);
foo.setP6(6);
foo.setP7(7);

First one looks better, right?