Exactly. It's (at least from what I've seen/read) common convention to make sure that getters/setters should be quick and have minimal side effects. Your appli

Exactly. It's (at least from what I've seen/read) common convention to make sure that getters/setters should be quick and have minimal side effects. Your application shouldn't hang from a database call when you pull a property from an object. And obviously, methods doing such things should be documented appropriately.