diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/code/ast/FieldDeclaration.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/code/ast/FieldDeclaration.java
index 0993b92..cedf1a4 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/code/ast/FieldDeclaration.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/code/ast/FieldDeclaration.java
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 public class FieldDeclaration extends BodyDeclaration implements IAnnotatable {
 	private Type type;
 	private String fieldName;
-	private String initializer;
+	private String initializer = null;
+	private String initializationBlock = null;
 	private Map<String, Annotation> annotations = new HashMap<>();
 	
 	public FieldDeclaration(Type type, String fieldName) {
@@ -47,6 +48,14 @@
 		this.initializer = initializer;
 	}
 
+	public String getInitializationBlock() {
+		return initializationBlock;
+	}
+
+	public void setInitializationBlock(String initializationBlock) {
+		this.initializationBlock = initializationBlock;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public Annotation getAnnotation(String name) {
 		return annotations.get(name);
@@ -67,10 +76,14 @@
 		for (Annotation annotation: getAnnotations()) {
 			code += annotation.toString() + "\n";
 		}
-		if (initializer == null) {
-			code += "private " + type.getInterfaceTypeName() + " " + fieldName + ";\n";
+		if (initializationBlock != null) {
+			code += "private " + type.getInterfaceTypeName() + " " + fieldName + ";\n" + initializationBlock + "\n";
 		} else {
-			code += "private " + type.getInterfaceTypeName() + " " + fieldName + " = " + initializer + ";\n";
+			if (initializer == null) {
+				code += "private " + type.getInterfaceTypeName() + " " + fieldName + ";\n";
+			} else {
+				code += "private " + type.getInterfaceTypeName() + " " + fieldName + " = " + initializer + ";\n";
+			}
 		}
 		return code;
 	}
diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGenerator.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGenerator.java
index f90f701..0319c58 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGenerator.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGenerator.java
@@ -857,7 +857,23 @@
 		}
 		return decoded;
 	}
-
+	
+	protected void setFieldInitializer(FieldDeclaration field, Type type, Expression initialValue) {
+		String initializer = null;
+		if (initialValue != null) {
+			String sideEffects[] = new String[]{""};
+			initializer = initialValue.toImplementation(sideEffects);
+			if (sideEffects[0] == null || sideEffects[0].length() == 0) {
+				field.setInitializer(initializer);
+			} else {
+				field.setInitializationBlock("{\n" + sideEffects[0] + field.getName() + " = " + initializer + ";\n" + "}\n");
+			}
+		} else if (type != null) {
+			initializer = DataConstraintModel.getDefaultValue(type);
+			field.setInitializer(initializer);
+		}
+	}
+	
 	protected IResourceStateAccessor getPushAccessor(IPlatformSpecific platformSpec) {
 		if (platformSpec.isMonolithic()) {
 			return new IResourceStateAccessor() {
diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGeneratorFromDataFlowGraph.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGeneratorFromDataFlowGraph.java
index 37d70a5..3990544 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGeneratorFromDataFlowGraph.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/CodeGeneratorFromDataFlowGraph.java
@@ -518,7 +518,8 @@
 		Set<ResourceHierarchy> children = resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy().getChildren();
 		if (children == null || children.size() == 0) {
 			// leaf resource.
-			FieldDeclaration stateField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(resStateType, fieldOfResourceState, langSpec.getFieldInitializer(resStateType, resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue()));
+			FieldDeclaration stateField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(resStateType, fieldOfResourceState);
+			setFieldInitializer(stateField, resStateType, resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue());
 			component.addField(stateField);
 			// Add a parameter to initialize the state field to the constructor.
 //			Map<String, VariableDeclaration> nameToParam = constructorParams.get(resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy());
@@ -534,7 +535,8 @@
 			ResourceHierarchy child = children.iterator().next();
 			if (children.size() == 1 && child.getNumParameters() > 0) {
 				// map or list.
-				FieldDeclaration stateField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(resStateType, fieldOfResourceState, langSpec.getFieldInitializer(resStateType, resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue()));
+				FieldDeclaration stateField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(resStateType, fieldOfResourceState);
+				setFieldInitializer(stateField, resStateType, resourceNode.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue());
 				component.addField(stateField);
 			} else {
 				// class
@@ -1736,10 +1738,8 @@
 						if (langSpec.declareField()) {
 							// Declare the cache field. 
 							String cacheFieldName = langSpec.toVariableName(getComponentName(srcResPath.getResourceHierarchy(), langSpec));
-							FieldDeclaration cacheField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(
-																	srcResPath.getResourceStateType(), 
-																	cacheFieldName, 
-																	langSpec.getFieldInitializer(srcResPath.getResourceStateType(), srcResPath.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue()));
+							FieldDeclaration cacheField = langSpec.newFieldDeclaration(srcResPath.getResourceStateType(), cacheFieldName);
+							setFieldInitializer(cacheField, srcResPath.getResourceStateType(), srcResPath.getResourceHierarchy().getInitialValue());
 							if (component != null) {
 								component.addField(cacheField);
 							} else if (parentComponent != null){
diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/ILanguageSpecific.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/ILanguageSpecific.java
index 5e5ea4a..bce2707 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/ILanguageSpecific.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/ILanguageSpecific.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 	Type newMapType(Type keyType, String compTypeName);
 	Type newTupleType(List<Type> compTypes);
 	String getVariableDeclaration(String typeName, String varName);
-	String getFieldInitializer(Type type, Expression initialValue);
 	boolean declareField();
 	String getSelfExp();
 	String getFieldAccessor(String fieldName);
diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/JavaSpecific.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/JavaSpecific.java
index 7115e57..e40f789 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/JavaSpecific.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/generators/JavaSpecific.java
@@ -101,17 +101,6 @@
 	}
 
 	@Override
-	public String getFieldInitializer(Type type, Expression initialValue) {
-		String initializer = null;
-		if (initialValue != null) {
-			initializer = initialValue.toImplementation(new String[] {""});
-		} else if (type != null) {
-			initializer = DataConstraintModel.getDefaultValue(type);
-		}
-		return initializer;
-	}
-
-	@Override
 	public boolean declareField() {
 		return true;
 	}
diff --git a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/models/dataConstraintModel/JsonTerm.java b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/models/dataConstraintModel/JsonTerm.java
index 8dba4c8..6f32281 100644
--- a/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/models/dataConstraintModel/JsonTerm.java
+++ b/AlgebraicDataflowArchitectureModel/src/models/dataConstraintModel/JsonTerm.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 public class JsonTerm extends Term {
 	private Map<String, Integer> keyToIndex = new HashMap<>();
+	private static int count = 0;
 
 	public JsonTerm() {
 		super(new Symbol("json", -1));
@@ -93,15 +94,14 @@
 	}
 	
 	public String toImplementation(String[] sideEffects) {
-		final int count[] = new int[]{0};
-		String temp = "temp_json" + count[0];
+		String temp = "temp_json" + count;
+		count++;
 		String impl = "";
 		impl += "Map<String, Object> " + temp + " = new HashMap<>();\n";
 		for (String key: keySet()) {
 			impl += temp + ".put(\"" + key + "\", " + get(key).toImplementation(sideEffects) + ");\n";
 		}
 		sideEffects[0] += impl;
-		count[0]++;
 		return temp;
 	}
 }