joda-beans | Java library to provide an API for beans and properties

joda-beans is a Java library. joda-beans has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub, Maven.

Joda-Beans has been created to plug a gap in the Java language - properties. The concept of properties is familiar to those coding in almost every other modern language. Java stands alone in its pursuit of the terrible JavaBean approach, and personally I believe that properties should have been added to Java before generics and closures. JavaBeans are typically created by manual coding or one-off IDE generation, such as by Eclipse. The same approach is taken to the creation of equals and hashCode methods. However, none of these approaches provides for a simple and fast mechanism to query a bean for the properties it exposes. Joda-Beans provides a solution. As a developer, you just write the fields much as you would today. Then you add annotations to the bean and properties. Finally, you run a code generator, which creates the get/set methods plus framework methods that allow the properties to be effectively queried. If you use Eclipse and the Joda-Beans Maven plugin, the bean will be regenerated automatically on save. A key point is that the code generator may be run again and again on the Java file, and is non-destructive. See these sample classes used for testing - a simple user account class, example usage, example of validation.