title: Why should anybody put annotations on the getters or setters when using JPA to map the classes?
body: <p>Subject says it all... I see no advantage of people declaring annotations on the getters and/or setters so far. For me this only has the disadvantage of spreading the annotations over the class, which can make the class more unreadable.</p>
  
  <p>Putting the annotations on the fields clearly reduces the amount of code to post when needing help. This is just a tiny advantage though. But putting annotations on methods would serve no purpose to me.</p>