Entity - Field-Based Access Vs Property Based Access

[CatchSandeepVaid]

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 ?

[r035198x]

Why do you think they are contradictory? you can declare does not mean you must declare ...

[CatchSandeepVaid]

I take my words back.. The statements are not contradictory. Rather the first statement is misleading. It doesn;t mention that even field based can be private..

[r035198x]

I take my words back.. The statements are not contradictory. Rather the first statement is misleading. It doesn;t mention that even field based can be private..

Because the next page mentions that explicitly and recommends it as the best practice.