Bean members as boolean or String?

[Timothy Sam]

Hi, in the servlet context is it ideal to make your bean members of boolean type or should I just make them String types as any other types in my class? Will I have a problem if I do it like this?

package beans;
 
public class UserFormBean 
{
    String userId = "";
    String username = "";
    String password = "";
    String email = "";
    String contactNumber = "";
    String locationId = "";
    String status = "";
    boolean online = false;
    String dateCreated = "";
    
    public UserFormBean()
    {
    }
    
public String getContactNumber() 
{
return contactNumber;
}

public void setContactNumber(String contactNumber) 
{
this.contactNumber = contactNumber;
}

public String getDateCreated() 
{
return dateCreated;
}

public void setDateCreated(String dateCreated) 
{
this.dateCreated = dateCreated;
}

public String getEmail() 
{
return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) 
{
this.email = email;
}

public String getLocationId() 
{
return locationId;
}

public void setLocationId(String locationId) 
{
this.locationId = locationId;
}

public boolean isOnline() 
{
return online;
}

public void setOnline(boolean online) 
{
this.online = online;
}

public String getPassword() 
{
return password;
}

public void setPassword(String password) 
{
this.password = password;
}

public String getStatus() 
{
return status;
}

public void setStatus(String status) 
{
this.status = status;
}

public String getUserId() 
{
return userId;
}

public void setUserId(String userId) 
{
this.userId = userId;
}

public String getUsername() 
{
return username;
}

public void setUsername(String username) 
{
this.username = username;
}
 
}

[Bear Bibeault]

There should be no problems using boolean properties.