Thread: Would the following be considered bad practice in Java?

public class Call {
 
	private int _CallNumber;
 
	public void CallNumber(int value)
	{
	     _CallNumber = value;
	}
	public int CallNumber()
	{
	     return _CallNumber;
	}
}

as opposed to :

public class Call {
 
	private int _CallNumber;
 
	public int getCallNumber()
	{
	     return _CallNumber;
	}
              public void setCallNumber(int value)
	{
	     _CallNumber = value;
	}
}

I simply prefer my accessors sorted by the field name, as opposed to get, get, get and set, set, set and I am curious as to whether or not the code at the top would be considered bad form in Java programming?

There are a few differences between the first and second, and a few things (and lack thereof) in both demonstrate bad practice (see Norm's post, and there are a few other things I'd considered bad practice). But focusing on your question at hand - standard practice is to follow the get/set methods of variable access. This is the standard of 'javabeans', some libraries depend upon method names designated as get/set, and more importantly its a standard that allows your code to be readable by others. Many IDE's allow you to automatically define the getter/setter methods for variables.