Listing 1. In this simple class for an employee data structure the accessor methods follow a get/set naming convention allowing the bean serializer/deserializer to recognize them automatically.

public class Employee {
  private String first;
  private String last;
  private int number;
  public Employee() {
  }
  public Employee(String first, String last, 
    int number) {
    this.first = first;
    this.last = last;
    this.number = number;
  }
  public String getFirst() {
    return first;
  }
  public void setFirst(String first) {
    this.first = first;
  }
  public String getLast() {
    return last;
  }
  public void setLast(String last) {
    this.last = last;
  }
  public void setNumber(int number) {
    this.number = number;
  }
  public int getNumber() {
    return number;
  }
}