"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : I don't understand how this relates to legacy 
databases.  The property you mark @Id is always the ID.  Sure, the ID can have 
no meaning, but unless you want to do stuff using the dom, it doesn't really 
matter.

Because a database may have a relationship (enforced or not) to something other 
than the Id. I've run across more than one legacy app that has an autonumbering 
Id on a table, but stores the name or something else in a related table rather 
than the Id value. While it's not good practice it's not something you always 
have the option to remediate, which means that being able to accomodate it ends 
up being useful.

Perhaps the entityConverter itself isn't an appropriate place for this, but it 
really does need to be accomodated somehow.

It looks like I'm not the only one thinking this either. In doing some further 
searches, I found another JIRA that I think relates to the issue. It seems that 
one of your fellow developers is attempting to address this  in 
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1589.

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