If you are lucky to be using scala a simple bean he showed is like: case class Mountain( val name: String, val latitude: Int, val longtitude: Int, var

If you are lucky to be using scala a simple bean he showed is like: case class Mountain( val name: String, val latitude: Int, val longtitude: Int, var country: String) For the above code you get a nice factory like Mountain('name', 11, 12, 'nowhere') with hashCode, toString and equals. Plus that you can use this class to decompose it using pattern matching: mountain match { case Mountain(name, _, _, country) => println(name + ' located in ' + country) } The future is here - it's just not evenly distributed: http://scala-lang.org http://scala-lang.org