Allen Holub is at it again, spouting regressive and toxic notions about OOD. Basically, he's still on his epic kick about "evil accessors," but now he's making the point with a gimp version of XStream that he wrote and some random noise about JSR175 annotations thrown in to get press.

I was thinking about writing more about this but it's late and it just isn't worth the keystrokes. I mean, it's really not that hard: Design contracts with care. Minimize contracts. Separate implementation from contract. Present mulitple contracts (interfaces) where appropriate. Why make it harder than it needs to be?