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Java beans have a readability problem. Not the pattern itself — fields plus getters and setters is fine, and a great deal of the ecosystem still relies on it — but the house style the average enterprise codebase wraps around it. Six lines of boilerplate Javadoc and braces for a one-word concept, repeated for every property, until a class with eight fields scrolls for two pages and tells you nothing you didn’t already know from the field name.

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