Well, if the type of field value remained the same, and the name were not used internally in the code base, there wouldn't even really be a need to change the name of the Java object's field that represented it, as long as you were willing to live with the name difference between external data and internal representation.

@andy.fingerhut in classic Java or in DOP Java?

fields renaming is close to being a strawman

Today I learned what is a strawman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man