Bean Creator

[Gregg Bolinger]

Does anyone know of a Tool that will create a simple Bean java file. For example, let's say I have a Bean that has getter and setter methods for 50 different pieces of data.
Is there a tool that I can plug in my data types and variable names and it will create all my getter and setter methods based on that given data?
I am lazy and just get tired of typing

public void setData(String data)
{
   this.data1 = data;
}
public String getData()
{
   return this.data1;
}

for a lot of data, over and over and over and over and.......
You get the idea.
thanks.

[Joel McNary]

I've got a couple that I've developed myself. If you're interested, I can provide one, but it is a C++ Console-based application that is compiled for Windows. (The other is not really mine to distribute....). Simply enter your variable anmes and types and it will produce code for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Scheme, LISP and Perl
In the near future I will be working on one written in Java.
If you're interested, e-mail me and I can provide it.

[Sam Kebab]

If you want get and set methods generated - you can do it in both Netbeans and Eclipse.
For Netbeans just 1)type out all your instance variables inside the class: e.g. private int id; ... etc. 2) click highlight the name e.g in this case id 3) right click 4) with the popup choose generate get and set methods. You should have your get and set.
Note: Regarding this feature, IMHO Eclipse is better than Netbeans. If memory serves me right you can highlight all your instance variables in one go and then there is a pop-up or a button that generates all get and set at the same time.
I am tired of typing too.

[Andy Bowes]

IDEA does the same. It allows to to select which instance variables you want and to specify whether you want the get..() and the set() generated.
It also allows you to automate the creation of constructors with parameters that map to instance variables.
I don't know of any small utility that allows you to do this. The alternatives are something like Xdoclet that would allow you to define your entities in an XML format and then automatically generate the Value Objects etc for them.