This post is a reply to Kent Tong’s post about scala’s getters and setters: http://agileskills2.org/blog/2010/01/applying_scala_to_solving_real_1.html:
You may also use the @BeanProperty annotation to generate Java-compatible getters and setters instead of weird methods with space and equal signs:

http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/reflect/BeanProperty.html