JavaWorld on OO: Getters/Setters vs Builder

Question

Background:

I found this article on JavaWorld, where Allen Holub explains an alternative to Getters/Setters that maintains the principle that the implementation of

Answer 1

You can implement Builders is a more concise manner. ;) I have often found writing Builders by hand tedious and error prone.

It can work well if you have a data model which generates your Data Value objects and their Builders (and marshallers). In that case I believe using Builders is worth it.