Question

I have a simple question about usage of Hibernate. I keep seeing people using JPA annotations in one of two ways by annotating the fields of a class and also by annotating the get method on the corresponding beans.

My question is as follows: Is there a difference between annotating fields and bean methods with JPA annoations such as @Id.

example:

@Entity
public class User
{

**@ID**
private int id;

public int getId(){
return this.id;
}

public void setId(int id){
this.id=id;
}

}

———–OR———–

@Entity
public class User
{


private int id;

**@ID**
public int getId(){
return this.id;
}

public void setId(int id){
this.id=id;
}

}

Answer 1

Yes, I believe you want to search on field versus property access:

Hibernate Annotations – Which is better, field or property access?

The Spring preference is field access. That’s what I follow.