Hibernate Annotation Placement Question

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From a performance and design perspective, using annotations on getters is a better idea than member variables, because the getter setters are called using reflection if placed on the field, than a method. Also if you plan to use validation and other features of hibernate, you’ll have all the annotations at one place, rather than scattering them all over the place.

My recommendation go with methods not member variables.

From the documentation

Depending on whether you annotate fields or methods, the access type used by Hibernate will be field or property. The EJB3 spec requires that you declare annotations on the element type that will be accessed, i.e. the getter method if you use property access, the field if you use field access. Mixing EJB3 annotations in both fields and methods should be avoided. Hibernate will guess the access type from the position of @Id or @EmbeddedId.

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