J2EE™ and JAX™: Developing Web Applications and Web Services

2.3. The Team Class

The Team class is central to the application. Each team has a small number of invariant attributes, such as the name of the team, its home city, and the Conference and Division to which it belongs. There is then quite a bit of data that is updated throughout the season: games won, lost, and tied; points scored; points allowed; etc. Although our classes aren't fully JavaBeans-compliant (see the following sidebar), we do follow the convention of providing accessor methods to our private data properties. The properties of the Team class are shown in Table 2.2. A full listing of the code is shown in the Appendix.

JavaBeans Coding Style While we aren't going to spend any time in this book specifically exploring JavaBeans, I've ...