lightbulb, I personally think it is better to annotate the getter methods, as i used to annotate the fields themselves and ran into a few errors (Hibernate MappingException) when using relations between the Entities. Just remember that what ever you do, it should be consistent i.e annotaye only the getters or only the fields. Cheers, Andy View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975947#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...