P-230 of EJB3 In Action Book states "If you want to use field-based access, you can declare all your POJO persisted data fields public or protected" P-231 "Even if you used field-based access, we recommend that you make the fields private and expose the fields to be modified by getter/setter method." The above 2 statements are contradictory... Can we mark our fields private and use them for field-based access ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4263542#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...