Confused with Java Encapsulation Concept

Question

Good day!

I am reading a Java book about encapsulation and it mentioned the getter and setter method.

I\'ve read that to hide the attributes, I must mark my

Answer 1

You use setters and getters to make the variables accessible from outside your class. In your example you will have

public class AddressBookEntry {

    private String name;

    public void setName(String name) {
       this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
       return name;
    }
}

You will access the name property from a UI class (it isn't good to mix UI and business logic in the same class):

public class MyPane extends JFrame {

  public getAllData() {
     String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Name: ");
     AddressBookEntry entry = new AddressBookEntry();
     entry.setName(name);
     // You can't use entry.name = name
  }

}