What, if any, is the difference between using access="net.sf.hibernate.property.DirectPropertyAccessor" and access="field" in a Hibernate mapping file?

Thanks,
wfarnaby

Is the same thing
DirectPropertyAccessor is the implementation of the PropertyAccessor
interface which Hibernate uses to acces (read and write) a property.
using acces="field" a short-cut and tells hibernate to acces the properties of your persistent class directly and not through the setter & getter methods