Here's an idea / wish I've had for a long time: Most of the fields in most of my biz objects are strings. Usually they are strings which should always be trimmed, so most of my setter methods look like: public void setCity(String city) { | if(city == null) { | this.city = null; | return; | } | this.city = city.trim(); | } There's never a reason for leading or trailing space in the "city" field or the "name" field or most of the fields actually. It would be cool to have an annotation called @Trim that I could put on set methods, which trims the string (if it's not null) before setting it. It seems like this would be easy to do. If I knew how Seam annotation processing worked, I would do it myself and submit it. If anyone can give me some brief pointers of how to get started, I'll start. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127145#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...