it's not an issue of using getters or setters - annotating either the fields or the getters/setters works fine. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965567#3965567 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3965567