That works alright up until you need to integrate with third party libraries like JSF, Seam, Hibernate, Jaxb, Spring, EL, plenty of other stuff that requires a

That works alright up until you need to integrate with third party libraries like JSF, Seam, Hibernate, Jaxb, Spring, EL, plenty of other stuff that requires a "javabean" Sure, you can beat the big ones into working, and there is generally no shortage of libraries in Java. But at some point you are just wasting resource to work around other people code. Java has properties and some libraries use them. Discussing if you should use them at all is offtopic, the real problem is that java has properties but instead of being a language/compiler supported feature, it is only defined as a "convention" with some half-assed support classes. Seeing how popular properties are, that either needs fixing or deprecation (starting with all the Oracle provided framework that use them)