Why does Point allow you to access x and y directly?

Question

Both x and y and integers, while getX() and getY() returns a doubles.

Why aren't there e.g. getXIntValue(), getXDoubleValue() and vice versa for y?

Answer 1

Note the @since in the Javadoc -- 1.0

There is broad consensus that Point was very poorly designed.

Answer 2

Point extends Point2D and Point2D has getX() and getY() defined as returning double. As @Dilum mentions above, its bad design from the stone ages of java.