I confirm this to be a problem, and quite an annoying one, because I just looooove public final fields. (To hell with getters.)

Want a test case? Just take any piece of working code and change a single field bound to a database column from private to public. No need to change anything else. It will blow up. Please-please-please fix this? Pretty-please-please-please?

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