I am new to hibernate. I have tried out a couple of examples with hibernate core. Now I am trying to do the mapping using annotations but i don't want to expose my private variables by having getter methods.

How can i map the variables of a class without having getter method?

Thankyou very much for taking time to read this. It would be nice if i could get an answer.

Annotate the fields.

@Id private Long id;

This is in the Hibernate Annotations manual...

:-)