Best Practices

[Jilesh Lakhani]

I would like to know if Its a good idea to declare member variables in the base abstract class and provide its basic getter and setter method implementation in the abstract class ??

I also wanted to know, when it would be an ideal situation to declare a member variable as Protected.

Thanks,
Jilesh

[Freddy Wong]

I would like to know if Its a good idea to declare member variables in the base abstract class and provide its basic getter and setter method implementation in the abstract class ??

Why not? After all, the abstract class allows you to have concrete implementation and not only abstract methods

[Jilesh Lakhani]

Thanks,

How about the usage of Protected..

[Nitesh Kant]

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[Hunter McMillen]

Jilesh Lakhani wrote:Thanks,

How about the usage of Protected..

If you plan on using getters and setters, I would use private access for all variables.

[Campbell Ritchie]

It's not Protected but protected. I would agree with Hunter McMillan: all fields ought to have private access until proven otherwise. Avoid other access types for fields (except public static final) as far as possible.