Is it possible to have immutable fields in Hibernate/JPA?

Question

In our application, we need to have fields that are assignable only once.

At first we thought of encapsulating the fields and making the setters private. However, some q

Answer 1

Try

@Column(updatable = false)

And make your setter private. (Leave your getter public if you want)

I think this is the best practice.

P.S.: JPA uses field access if you annotate your fields and uses getter/setter access if you annotate your getter method.