>>I will reply specifically to the last sentence... I agree. Allowing access and assign methods makes the original programming much simpler, and yet allows to hide internal workings of the class later on. (Disclaimer - Still not an expert on Java... There may be a better way I am not aware of.)
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http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-properties-without>
>Disclaimer: I am not using java much in this century ;-)
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>thomas
So, the approach we have gotten accustomed to use in Visual FoxPro seems to be planned for some time in the future. Oh, well.
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