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Various questions about the JFC

Posted by Nigel Sandever on May 24, 2001 at 7:59 AM

Hi,

Im a long time (20+ yrs) professional prog., but a neophite at java and there are various things regarding the JFC that strick me as suboptimal:)

Maybe there are some opinions out there that will clarify things for me.

1) Why do we have a xxxx = getXxxx(), and a setXxxx( xxxx ) calls...
not xxxx = xxxx() and xxxx( xxxx );

eg. to clarify

class Dimension {
...
void set
xxx