Can anyone explain why this rule is in effect: When using property access, only the getter and setter method for a property should ever access the underlying persistent field directly. Other methods, including internal business methods in the persistent class, should go through the getter and setter methods when manipulating persistent state. (section 2.1.4 OpenJPA manual)
This seems rather execution costly. If ,for instance, I have a Size class with hieght, width and length then to calculate and return volume I suffer a three method call overhead: return getWidth() * getLength() * getHieght(); This is opposed to a more efficient Return height * width * length Phill
