I agree that getters and setters aren't object oriented. It was the whole point of my blog post to make people think about that. It wasn't written for people who already understand that, though… otherwise it would be quite a bit shorter. ;)
The sad thing is that way to much people think "getters and setters" when they hear "object orientation". Maybe even "Eclipse will do that for me". Needless to say that encapsulation isn't understood then, too. But encapsulation is bigger topic of it's own and would have been to much for that post.
While talking about that with other people I got the impression that just explaining the way it was meant to be does not work well. Especially if a professor and many books tell otherwise. Therefore I try to make people think for their own about the problem. Showing the problem, how it is solved and how it can be solved in other situations. I don't know if I succeeded in that.
The sad thing is that way to much people think "getters and setters" when they hear "object orientation". Maybe even "Eclipse will do that for me". Needless to say that encapsulation isn't understood then, too. But encapsulation is bigger topic of it's own and would have been to much for that post.
While talking about that with other people I got the impression that just explaining the way it was meant to be does not work well. Especially if a professor and many books tell otherwise. Therefore I try to make people think for their own about the problem. Showing the problem, how it is solved and how it can be solved in other situations. I don't know if I succeeded in that.