Thanks datanucleus! I thought about the @Unowned annotation but I didn't have the datanucleus-appengine-2.0.0-RC2.jar in my eclipse build path...
Unfortunately I'm not out of the woods yet. I downloaded and built the jars from the the svn trunk, and I modified my entities to match exactly the mapping defined in the JPAManyToManyTest.java from the unit tests in that project, but when I run my application locally via eclipse, I get this exception: Caused by: com.google.appengine.datanucleus.EntityUtils $ChildWithoutParentException: Detected attempt to establish This(2) as the parent of That(3) but the entity identified by That(3) has already been persisted without a parent. A parent cannot be established or changed once an object has been persisted. at com.google.appengine.datanucleus.EntityUtils.checkParentage(EntityUtils.java: 577) at com.google.appengine.datanucleus.scostore.FKSetStore.add(FKSetStore.java: 171) at org.datanucleus.store.types.sco.backed.Set.add(Set.java:562) Seems like at runtime the @Unowned is being ignored? Not sure if this is a classpath issue or maybe something to do with running it locally in Eclipse using the GAE plugin? I'm not really sure what else to look for at this point so if you have any ideas for anything else I can check I'd really appreciate it. THanks again for the response... On Jan 22, 11:11 am, datanucleus <andy_jeffer...@yahoo.com> wrote: > To make a relation unowned (in v2) you mark (both sides if > bidirectional) as @Unowned > Unowned M-N work fine with SVN trunk code, though there may have been > some things incomplete in RC versions -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.