Re: Persistent field and Persistent properties - difference
On 10/12/2010 07:38 AM, gk wrote:
In JPA Entity classes , I don't understand what is a persistent field
and what is a persistent property ?
I have the following understanding as below
If the Entiry class has NO getter/setter then we call the instance
variable as persistent field
For example,
public class Contact implements Serializable{
protected String firstName;
// firstName is the persistent field.
// there is no getter/setter for firstName
.........................
...........................
BUT
If the Entity class has getter/setter then we call the instance
variable as persistent property
For example,
public class Contact implements Serializable{
protected String firstName; // firstName is the persistent
property.
void setfirstName(String fname){firstName=fname;}
String setfirstName(String fname){return firstName;}
.........................
...........................
Could you please let me know whether I have understood the terminology
persistent field and persistent property correctly. If not , please
let me know where is the difference between them ?
In this case they're synonymous.
Strictly speaking, a "field" is a member variable and a "property" is a
publicly accessible attribute, usually accessed in Java via get.../set...
methods, that behaves to the world like a field but might actually be
implemented differently.
That's a rather loose definition but works all right in practice.
--
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