Autogeneration of Get & Set methods?

Yes. Eclipse Does this. To generate setter/getter, select the class in package explorer, right click -> Source -> Generate getter/setting.

Netbean also does this. Right click anywhere inside your class -> insert code-> setter/getter.

we do that to encapsulate the implementation details. you can find more explanations Why use getters and setters

Try this on Eclipse

Right click the file -> Source -> Generate Getters and Setters

Try this on IDEA

Right click anywhere in the file -> Generate -> Getter and Setter