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

Question

This question is somewhat related to Hibernate Annotation Placement Question.

But I want to know which is better? Access via properties or access vi

Answer 1

I tend to prefer and to use property accessors:

• I can add logic if the need arises (as mentioned in the accepted answer).
• it allows me to call foo.getId() without initializing a proxy (important when using Hibernate, until HHH-3718 get resolved).

Drawback:

• it makes the code less readable, you have for example to browse a whole class to see if there are @Transient around there.