http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660The problem I see with this approach is that you end up with a public property which means that embedding the newly added field has at least one more location which has to be modified - either the UI or business logic external to the entity class. Public properties are generally considered evil (see another article by Allen Holub: www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html) and usually end up causing duplicated code. http://ayende.com/2252/dont-repeat-yourself-pragmatic-approaches#comment1http://ayende.com/2252/dont-repeat-yourself-pragmatic-approaches#comment1Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:37:32 GMT