Allen Holub's past Java Toolbox column, " Why Getter and Setter Methods Are Evil," discussed the downside of the getter/setter idiom. That article presented a design-level solution. (By keeping ...

Here's how to make classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects work together in your Java programs.

Writing a Java application (see Android) that consumes a JSON API usually involves mapping the JSON objects to Java classes for use in the software. This is a tedious and repetitive task to say ...