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Encapsulation is a basic concept in OOP. It is about wrapping data and code as a single unit. In this case, it is a good practice to declare the variables as private and then access them through Getters and Setters to view and/or modify them. public class Sample { private String name; privat...

Setters and Getters allow for an object to contain private variables which can be accessed and changed with restrictions. For example, public class Person { private String name; public String getName() { return name; } public void setName(String name) { i...

Consider a basic class containing an object with getters and setters in Java: public class CountHolder { private int count = 0; public int getCount() { return count; } public void setCount(int c) { count = c; } } We can't access the count variable because it's private. But we can ac...