Depends what you consider trivial. I don't touch any of the Bean / Spring / 'enterprise' madness. Perhaps that's the difference. Exposing fields everywhere is

Depends what you consider trivial. I don't touch any of the Bean / Spring / 'enterprise' madness. Perhaps that's the difference. Exposing fields everywhere isn't really a maintenance hell, it's simple enough to find everywhere that accesses the field, I'm not sure why adding getters/setters is so much better :/ Sometimes it makes sense when the get/set does more than just modify a field. Things like SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean are clearly madness, and give Java a bad name. Also reinforce the silly opinion that to write Java you must use an IDE.