Should all the setter methods in the JavaBeans remain non-public?

A public setter method in a public class is equivalent to a public member variable in a public class. For example,

public class MyBean

{

private int myInt;

MyBean() {}

public int getMyInt() {

return myInt;

}

public void setMyInt(int aint) {

myInt = aint;

}

}

With the above implementation, a private member variable (myInt) can be reset to be any value since we have a public method in a public class. Should we restrict all the setter methods to be non-public?

[542 byte] By [khwang1044a] at [2007-11-27 11:07:19]